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A report from Morgan Stanley suggests the datacenter industry is on track to emit 2.5 billion tons by 2030, which is three times higher than the predictions if generative AI had not come into play.

The extra demand from GenAI will reportedly lead to a rise in emissions from 200 million tons this year to 600 million tons by 2030, thanks largely to the construction of more data centers to keep up with the demand for cloud services.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Maybe the Butlerian Jihad had a point.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

I am curious who buys generative AI services? The consumers seem to be people making memes or questionable porn with free services. It can't prepare food, unblock drains or tile a bathroom. You can't use it for anything like medicine, law or engineering where you would be professionally liable if it fucks up. How is it sustainable?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I see a fair amount of online adverts that use them. Usually the kind you might get orbiting an article of some kind, just using AI images as their hook.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Me. Moderate ai enthusiast and software engineer.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

It's good for making up stories and making suggestions. I worked with chatGPT on how to power up a mothballed Galaxy Class starship. We created the procedure to bring the ship from inert and vacuumed to ready for warp flight.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

My company buys it. No idea what they use it for since I work in IT and I don't use it for anything.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

A lot of companies buy it so their employees have acres to it. Like Microsoft 365 copilot for example

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Few months ago it was bitcoin mining. They both need curtailment for other reasons as well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

A few years ago was the Cryptomining today the IA

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago

Consider this: climate change is being accelerated at a time when we are overdue to reduce it and what we are getting out of it is plagiarism and wrong answers.

[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 month ago (5 children)

the most fucked up part about this is that it's not like regular people account for more than a fraction of the AI usage, most of it is just other companies using it to replace workers or just.. paying for AI usage instead of fucking paying a stock photo company instead..

i hate corporations i hate corporations i hate corporations

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Our planet is literally dying, and humankind is going to be decimated (at least) directly due to the actions of corporations.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I actually got into a fight over suggesting someone to use stock photos instead of grungy-smeary AI generated images for their (sh)articles, so at least I won't believe it was too AI generated. Then they insisted on it being their own creation, and how they became an artist through words.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 month ago

Exactly! I was just saying the same thing in another post!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Don't forget the garbage listicle websites which pollute every search for "the best x" where x is something like a vacuum cleaner. Judging by the utter uselessness of search engines these days, there must be A LOT of those sites...

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Every negative article I read about AI is simply an attribution to capitalism. It's incredibly funny.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

it's literally just mechanical looms all over again, this shit happens over and over and over and at no point do people learn that this will continue as long as we allow capitalism to persist.

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