I’ll skip discussions about my persona. But most certainly golf courses or video games have orders of magnitude lower impact on electricity and watee than worldwide LLMs (mostly in datacenters).

Your access to a popular and commercial fork might be non-existent. You would maybe not even mind that they’re selling your code - possibly just wanting to tune it a bit, since you know how it used to work. But the fork can decide they’re proprietary and they won’t give you any source code.

Currently, LLMs impact on electricity usage and fresh water usage across the world is HUGE.

The painful part to me is the choice on where to put the stress. Which areas to highlight and talk about.

Yes some weak LLMs can use comparatively little electricity. Yes some other industries use electricity, generate CO2 and consume fresh water, too. But the existence of other problems, to me, does not mean that eco impact of LLMs should be swept under the rug.

There are other questions

Not sure if that’s really _acknowledging_ the problem.

Do you know that Apple’s macOS is historically a FreeBSD fork? (They have copied big parts.)

I find it notable that FreeBSD is struggling to stay alive, and Apple’s 1000000000000s of dollars in incomes does not help them at all.

Or from the other side, GPL would guarantee that you yourself (and your project’s contributors) would still have access even if a good fork emerges.

Things happen over years or decades.