alt Hacker NewsClimate destroying? How do they destroy the climate by hosting a few gigabyte model on their computer?
It's the whole point with these. Uses hardware they already own, uses energy they very possibly produce for themselves.
Or is this just me needing to take a joke?
“High parameter […] models” was mentioned above. It’s still not a good take however, as laws of civilizations getting more convoluted over time is the general behaviour, not specific to LLM-producing countries.