AI researcher jokes an LLM is worth roughly one mega-insect-death by Banksy's math
dlwh · x · 2026-10-03
AI researcher dlwh joined the ongoing debate about the environmental cost of LLMs with a tongue-in-cheek estimate: "by Banksy's math, an LLM is worth roughly 1 mega(insect)death" — about a million insect lives.
- The quip responds to a thread where @tszzl argued it's "not obvious at all" whether LLMs are worth their environmental cost
- The joke uses absurd insect-mortality accounting to mock the moral cost-benefit math flying around AI energy debates
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