Pledges coming from proprietary software companies mean nothing
Get behind the community that is _really_ fighting to curb climate change:
It's almost as though we need regulation.
this post was submitted on 18 May 2024
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@[email protected] @[email protected] I'm legitimately getting annoyed by the widespread obsession with AI as it's not being used for the betterment of society. The original purpose of ChromeOS was to breath life into old laptops. That pledge comes from us all; slashing greenhouse gasses is done by using open-source OS's on older computers. Not new computers, but ones we already have.
@[email protected] @[email protected] "AI-free" can become a feature if correctly advertised.
In a sense maybe it’s a good thing this big AI hype is here so prematurely. People will misuse it and rely too heavily on it, and it will fuck everything up, since it can’t really do what these execs and the media want to claim it can do. So it will fuck up and hopefully people will learn from that. And we can start seeing products advertised as AI free.
And then when AI finally does get to the point where it is capable of doing these amazing things, we will be more careful at that time. Maybe. Hopefully.
But hey, they're still good, they have that green leaf in their windows settings. They're good, right?
Pledges coming from capitalists means nothing.
They just need "unless we can make more money in the short term by not doing it" appended to them. So, yes, they mean nothing.
pledges coming from any capitalist for-profit company mean nothing.
unless the pledge is cutting costs or making line go up or laying off a third of your employees.
Nois aqui ensinando essa turminha kkkk
The board of directors is obliged to maximize profits for the shareholders!
It's not. It's obliged to work in the shareholders' interests. That can mean many things.
The board just chooses to take a narrow interpretation of those interests.
Climate was only cool while you could buy fake carbon credits to make up lies about responsible computing at scale. Now we save the world with AI once again. Next year, compute on mars, true planetary scale! Cloud? We're doing Starsystem now!
You forgot quantum! We're developing super duper plants that suck the carbon out of the atmosphere harder than a crack whore and make everything great for everyone (with money)!!!
Climate was only cool in the 1700's....
Lol