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Take over? Not llms. Destroy the world by accelerating climate change? Absolutely.
I get the spirit, but it's capitalism that accelerates climate change. LLMs are just the new blockchain scapegoat.
You're both right. Capitalism accelerates climate change but so does the outrageous electricity requirements of LLMs.
Many human activities cause climate change. LLMs are a relatively new one, and a disproportionate energy user, so it's fair enough to shout about it and try to minimise adoption. Things that are already entrenched like consumer culture or aviation will be harder and slower to undo.
Also, whether it's right or not that capitalism is largely to blame, if you take that to mean that the only useful action against climate change is fighting against capitalism, or let yourself feel like you've 'done your part' by having anticapitalist opinions, I think that's counterproductive.
If it weren't for Capitalism, those LLMs would have been designed with a lower climate impact from the get-go. But since that hurts the shareholders bottom line, they aren't.
Don’t forget the damage to the creative industries
Yeah, all those poor scribes and monks who got put out of work...