In a press conference this week on New York City’s $12 billion budget gap, Mayor Zohran Mamdani zeroed in on the previous administration’s artificial intelligence chatbot as one of “a number of different things we’re going to pursue for savings.”

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      Good luck arguing that my local AI models are harming Earth.

      Yes, you can argue phones themselves/lightbulbs harm Earth. I don’t care at that scale.

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        Are you perchance ignoring the petawatt-hours that were needed to train and distil your local AI model?

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        A model being local doesn’t make it magically better than cloud based ones. Especially since your local hardware may not be as optimized as professional hardware.

        And I say that as a local AI user.

        The way to make it less harmful mainly comes from external factors :

        • The origin of the electricity (renewable)
        • Shift consumption to a time of low demand (or use a residential battery)
        • Use specific hardware for specific tasks (use less energy per token)
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        Oh, you’re right. Everything being plugged into massive datacenters that use more power than whole countries is ok, because your computer somehow doesn’t use much power per query. I stand corrected, sir.