alt Hacker NewsPeople want to ban LLM contributors not because of energy usage, but because AI generated code is unmaintainable and the people who generate it tend to engage with others in domineering and brazenly manipulative ways.
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lproven • today at 12:30 PM
"¿Porque no los dos?"
"Why not both?"
Fair enough. My comment was however asking about the difference in climate damage from local vs cloud inference, is either better in that specific regard. Or even the energy usage between the two.
As for ethics, i don't see a meaningful difference between the two. Local strips out a big-tech middleman perhaps.