The visual novel was a joke reference to an LLM using up an entire gpu. It’s quite sad that you’re so addicted to LLMs that you don’t even notice your biases.

All of those things you listed take a fraction of the power of these models.

The one you’re using with power in your own house already used enough power to run a city, so yeah…of course that one is getting disparaged.

And no, it doesn’t depend on the hardware. Thinking that a local llm only uses a portion of your gpu while games max them out is just ignorant. Games do not have to load up the entire vram and run the gpu at full power just to run a basic visual novel. An llm does both of those things, anytime you are using it. It’s absolutely nothing like a game.

The temperature my computer room gets to when gaming vs using a local model says otherwise. I’ll gladly plug in a measuring tool and show you the data if you want.

But here is the thing: this is a Volta GPU with 16GB of HBM2 memory, 5120 CUDA cores, and I picked it up for about £150 on eBay. The compute is still real. The VRAM is still real. And the memory bandwidth is where it gets genuinely surprising.

It’s AI slop. You’re blind.

“It’s not blah. It’s blah.”, “it’s genuinely <insert adjective of amazement>”. I can go on. As soon as you see it once you see it everywhere. When every article reads the exact same way it’s horrendous, it’s tiring, it’s the end of the internet. It’s all bots now.

Claiming that global tax laws are realistic while banning AI isn’t is just cope. Banning AI needs nothing more than for people to realize the harm and to stop doing it. It’s exactly how we stopped using CFCs. It’s how several billion people stopped eating shark fin soup. It’s how we have begun moving away from disco fossil fuels to renewables.

Power consumption for AI is way higher than for games…your gpu is rarely at full usage when running a game, only really if you’re one of the few people that tries to get every single bit out of your game with the highest level graphics and even then you’re not using the full amount because the game would stutter. It doesn’t matter if an llm stutters. They use the full power of your gpu no matter what you’re doing.

And the models being trained on other models mean that local LLMs use more energy than a model like Claude. You have all the energy of multiple data centers training one model and then you go and train a model off of that.

I detailed several of the indications in another comment. If you’re too blind to see the very obvious indicators then oh boy. That’s what makes it AI slop. They don’t even bother trying to hide it. It’s like bad CGI, there’s no need to say “I can tell by the pixels” because it’s transparently obvious.

It’s literally AI slop. Ignoring the subject of the article (which is whatever), the article is clearly entirely written by AI. The AI writing style is horrendous. “It’s not blah. It’s blah.”, “it’s genuinely <insert adjective of amazement>”

It has nothing to do with the subject of the article. Are you blind? It’s the exact same bland, AI regurgitated writing style as every other AI written article.

This “guy” isn’t explaining anything. The entire article is written by AI. It’s the same bland writing style everywhere now.

It has nothing to do with the subject of the article. Are you blind? It’s the exact same bland, AI regurgitated writing style as every other AI written article.

Is nobody extremely tired of the AI slop articles??

Thanks lol. People being wrong on the internet sucks, but people deliberately spreading misinformation that all experts agree is misinformation is infuriating to me. Just cause some fucking YouTuber said something doesn’t make it true. I’ve stopped watching so many YouTubers because of the bullshit like they make up.

On a topic similar to this though, is plastics recycling, which experts agree that plastics manufacturing hid how difficult it was to recycle for years. But experts say it’s infeasible, while there are companies like Trash Panda disc golf recycling things into disc golf discs hundreds of times. So really the moral is, think critically.

I’m not trying to spin anything. He literally made a video where he states he is a liberal arts or business major. I’m not going to go find it cause I’m not going to support him. You can either support the liar or not, I don’t give a fuck. You can also either believe Wikipedia or his own mouth.

He himself claimed he’s not a scientist so /shrug

So I just watched that video and I’m sorry, but that dude is just as bad as Veritasium.

Let’s cover some of the bad science:

1. What is this 24 hour time limit for these wipes sitting in water? Clogs happen in sewage systems immediately, not 24 hours later. And it doesn’t even take that long for sewage to move through a proper system anyway, so any clogs would happen at the processing facility where they are worst, not in “twists and turns” like this guy says
2. He literally hides what happens to the toilet paper when he flushes it, but he didn’t hide it very well. You can see in later shots (like at 8:26 in the top right) that the toilet paper literally broke up by the time it made it to the concrete. That is how it’s supposed to work. The rest failed by the time they hit the concrete.
3. He shakes the mason jars before opening them, then claims it is to “simulate the twists and turns”. This dude is just lying out his ass. Do you know the number of turns before you get from a toilet to the street? It’s like 3. I think every toilet in my house actually only has 1 or 2, depending on which floor. Shaking these up is so badly messing with the experiment. And guess what! They’re still completely intact! But the toilet paper one he barely shakes and yet it’s completely dissolved.

And here’s where we find out what he’s looking for: 12:20. He’s seeing whether these will make it through a house plumbing system. NOT a city sewer system.

Guess what. That same guy has this video from 4 months ago: https://youtu.be/6CQ5rMRvn8I. The title: “The Lie of Flushable Wipes”. He proceeds to say no flushable wipe is safe…wait for it…except the brand he’s selling. And he directly refutes all the bits of the exact tests he ran two years ago. He even says “your sewer system doesn’t agitate the wipes, it’s like a lazy river, slowly turning”.

Think of it this way. The wipes are wet in the package they’re sold to you in. If they haven’t disintegrated in the packaging, they’re not disintegrating in the sewage system. Else they would just sell you wet toilet paper.

No that’s literally the experiment that Derek did. He “showed” that the wet wipes “disintegrated”. What they actually did was break apart under a large weight he put on top of them. That’s not what happens in a sewage system. Along with that, unless they completely dissolve they will still cause issues as the broken up strands.

Unless you are a civil engineer you should not be deciding what goes in a sewer. And no one making wet wipes are civil engineers.

He created fake science experiments to sell products and slipped them into normal videos, like the video where he claimed wet wipes are flushable, then created a fake experiment “proving” they were flushable. He’s incredibly untrustworthy and also, not a scientist! He’s an art major or business, can’t remember which.

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