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Generative AI is reportedly tripling carbon dioxide emissions from data centers
(www.techradar.com)
Maybe the Butlerian Jihad had a point.
this post was submitted on 14 Sep 2024
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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?
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.
Me. Moderate ai enthusiast and software engineer.
Spammers
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.
My company buys it. No idea what they use it for since I work in IT and I don't use it for anything.
A lot of companies buy it so their employees have acres to it. Like Microsoft 365 copilot for example
Few months ago it was bitcoin mining. They both need curtailment for other reasons as well.
A few years ago was the Cryptomining today the IA
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.
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
Our planet is literally dying, and humankind is going to be decimated (at least) directly due to the actions of corporations.
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.
Exactly! I was just saying the same thing in another post!
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...
https://iorate.github.io/ublacklist
this addon has made my search experience so much better
You should make a general post about this to promote it. I just installed it, along with the blocklist Nikelui posted below and I've seen a huge difference in my search results. Thank you!
Ooo, I'll have to check this out. Thank you
Every negative article I read about AI is simply an attribution to capitalism. It's incredibly funny.
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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