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The energy issue almost feels like a red herring for distracting all idiots from actual AI problems and lemmy is just gobbling it up every day. It's so tiring.
The international energy agency estimates that the total electricity consumption for AI worldwide was around 415 TWh per year as of 2024. That's more than the UK uses.
That's because it IS an issue, together with many other issues like disinformation, over reliance, wrong tools for wrong (most) jobs, etc.
lemmy is just gobbling it up every day. It's so tiring.
Are you fucking serious? All I ever see on Lemmy is prople saying "AI slop" over and over and over and over again... in like every comment section of every post. It could be a picture that was actually hand-drawn, or a photograph that was definitely not AI, or articles written by someone "sounding like AI". The AI hate on Lemmy is WAY overpowering any support.
as it gets better
Bold assumption.
Historically AI always got much better. Usually after the field collapsed in an AI winter and several years went by in search for a new technique to then repeat the hype cycle. Tech bros want it to get better without that winter stage though.
That's part of why they installed Donald Trump as the dictator of the United States. The other is the network states.
AI usually got better when people realized it wasn't going to do all it was hyped up for but was useful for a certain set of tasks.
Then it turned from world-changing hotness to super boring tech your washing machine uses to fine-tune its washing program.
Like the cliché goes: when it works, we don't call it AI anymore.
The smart move is never calling it "AI" in the first place.
Unless you're in comp sci, and AI is a field, not a marketing term. And in that case everyone already knows that's not "it".
