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[–] 36 points 11 months ago (15 children)

Because AI is a massive waste of resources that has yet to prove (to me at least) that it can provide any kind of real benefit to humanity that couldn't be better provided by another, less resource intensive means. Advocating for 'common' AI use is absurd in the face of the amount of energy and other resources consumed by that usage, especially in the face of a looming climate crises being exacerbated by excesses like this.

LLMs may have valid uses, I doubt it, but they may. Using it to make memes and generate answers of questionable veracity to questions that would be better resolved with a Google search is just dumb.

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  • [–] 21 points 11 months ago* (13 children)

    This. It burns too much electricity, wastes too much water and is wrong 70% of the time. Even if its private and offline the problems with it go waaaaay beyond that.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago (11 children)

    The datacenter industry has planned build outs that will require them using 13-15% of the power in America even after they add their own filthy new generation.

    That's insane.

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  • [–] 0 points 11 months ago (9 children)

    I thought you had just said concerns are overblown?

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (7 children)

    You'll have to explain how chatbots ran by the same company are fundamentally different. Because imo you're completely wrong.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (5 children)

    Source? Also seems like anything over image is too much. Again, it's the same companies doing both, is it not?

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (3 children)

    I notice you keep ignoring my one point. Is it not the same companies doing image generation as well as all the rest?

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    No, it is. That's because Alphabet, Meta and every internet giant are pushing it to become mainstream, not because it's currently is. People who just Google something are in the billions, they use this crap daily several times a day, without any concerns about environmental impacts, all this while some enshitification of useful services is due to keep up with the AI losses. That's not desirable nor responsible.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    Oh come on. UNLESS VIDEO TAKES OFF???? I don't have social media, but fucks sake open your eyes to what is popular. It's taking off, there is no unless. And it absolutely is not beside the point, like the other guy said everytime I use google it fucking uses ai, every single google search.

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