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It's strange to me to call out the climate costs, especially since this would have far less climate impact than having to call to google's servers to use the full sized models. LLMs aren't magically worse for the environment, its the hardware they run on for the full sized models that is incredibly power hungry. A 4 GB LLM would probably use less power than a modern video game on a person's computer, and run for less time.
It's an easy angle to win over the unaware general public by hitting points like climate and water usage
Dishonest, and a little silly to people who understand the math but it is an angle