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[–] ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

But is it the tool that has the negative impact or is it the corporations that use the tool with a negative impact?

Running machine learning models is extremely computationally-intensive. To my knowledge, it doesn't scale particularly well when you have a bunch of users making arbitrary requests. The energy problem is mostly to do with the number of users, rather than the fact that it's corporations doing it. This isn't to say that big tech doesn't create a bunch of other problems by controlling closed-source models.