A comparison of the carbon cost of training AI models compared to many many others things. I have long wondered about this, and now I have a decent answer, and yes, it’s pretty much a red herring, unless you are already complete consumer goods renunciate. There is no ethical consumption under capitalism, but AIs are not especially unethical within the eco frame, and painting them as if they are is not an especially helpful argument.

A little sliver of good news – I await seeing if the infrasctructure he built can be dismanlted fast enough to prevent someone else just as bad filling his shoes at the next election, but I’ll take the fact that there’s even hope they might as as good sign for now.