The model exists already — abstaining from using it doesn’t make the energy consumption go away. I don’t think it’s reasonable to let historic energy costs drive what you do, else you would never touch a computer.

The point is that OP (most probably) didn’t train it — they downloaded a pre-trained model and only did fine-tuning and inference.

Running a 500W GPU 24/7 for a full year is less than a quarter of the energy consumed by the average automobile in the US (in 2000). I don’t know how many GPUs this person has or how long it took to fine tune the model, but it’s clearly not creating an ecological disaster. Please understand there is a huge difference between the power consumed by companies training cutting-edge models at massive scale/speed, compared to a locally deployed model doing only fine tuning and inferencing.

Idk man, I feel like you’re striving for perfection in an imperfect world. I agree it would be nice for all email to be plain-text and with no clickables, but that’s not the world we live in, and getting companies to remove them from mandatory emails is an uphill battle.

While it’s true that there’s no way to completely eliminate spoofed “From” addresses, I think it’s fair to say it’s rare, and that checking the “From” address will conquer a significant chunk of phishing attempts. The training isn’t meant to 100% eliminate the effects of phishing attacks, it’s meant to reduce the number.

But the truth is emails may be dangerous, and the trainings exist to show people how to tell the difference. What reasonable alternative is there? Your argument is effectively “People will never learn how to use a fire extinguisher so why bother doing fire safety training. Some fires are so bad that a fire extinguisher will do nothing.” We don’t control the danger, but we can manage and minimize the risk through training.

I don’t see the problem, is that not the point of phishing tests? Users need to ensure the sender is legitimate before taking action such as clicking links.

All six GrapheneOS users should be proud that the developers of their phone software are genius inventors!