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Comment by fragmede

18 hours ago

It takes energy to generate the LLM response. If you read the already generated response instead of generating your own, we burn less coal.

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account42  4 hours ago

Now add the energy needed by the human to read the response (not to mention his finite lifetime) to your calculation.

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