Benjamin T. Rancourt

@robinsyl@meow.social @zzt@mas.to Wait, genAI boosters unironically did a study to show that being alive is too expensive and not worth it?

@zzt@mas.to I couldn't resist; I had to look it up. Is this it? https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/the-energy-footprint-of-humans-and-large-language-models/ It's nice that for accuracy, they include not just the training of an LLM but also of a human, "by considering a 20-year-old writer who, if raised in the U.S., probably used close to 250,000 kWh of electricity in his/her 20 years of life." Someone really decided to write an article on the question: Do humans produce enough words per kWh to justify using humans for writing?