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The sin is not activist language, the sin is applying rhetoric in academic language to distort the truth to make a point. It’s concern trolling to gain academic
by thorncorona 4y ago
The sin is not activist language, the sin is applying rhetoric in academic language to distort the truth to make a point. It’s concern trolling to gain academic clout.
Page 3 of a 14 page paper already claims with a straight face that LLMs are responsible for the sinking of Maldives.
> Training a single BERT base model (without hyperparameter tuning) on GPUs was estimated to require as much energy as a trans-American flight.
> Is it fair or just to ask, for example, that the residents of the Maldives (likely to be underwater by 2100 [6]) or the 800,000 people in Sudan affected by drastic floods7 pay the environmental price of training and deploying ever larger English LMs, when similar large-scale models aren’t being produced for Dhivehi or Sudanese Arabic?
- rcme 4y ago[flagged]
- UncleEntity 4y agoI don’t even think they’re using jet fuel to power the computers used to train these models… We need a new measure, how about “how many bitcoins could have been mined from the energy used”?
- wizzwizz4 4y agoThe text you quoted claims that the "environmental price" is of "as much energy as a trans-American flight". It implies that this would contribute to these issues (true), and rhetorically suggests that this is not fair, but words-as-written, I don't see any distortion of truth. Heck, it's using familiar units: most of us have an order-of-magnitude idea how many trans-American flights there are each month. "Author is not affecting a neutral point of view" is not the same as "author is distorting truth".
- matsemann 4y agoYou say it "distort the truth to make a point", and then in your next paragraph lie about the contents of the paper.. Like, it absolutely does not claim LLMs sinking the Maldives. How can you say that with a straight face?