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AI by and large has done nothing but make our environment worse.

People literally outsource thinking to it.

People have killed themselves because there were no stopgaps in the communication aspect.

Rural towns are getting overly fucked by water and electricity usage, adding in the fumes produced.

All of this for what, so we can make a video of Michael Jackson high-fiving Ghandi?

The implementation was haphazard and some could say felonious, but altm*n is richer than 99% of us, and would never actually see the inside of a courtroom.

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One positive of this whole AI is its really made me think critically about what is actually valuable to my life.

If all new media is just endless stuff produced by AI I’m kind of not interested. Which is interesting because it made me realize I don’t actually care about the media itself, but the connection to another human (through movies or writing or whatever).

It’s also made me take a step back and take a hard look at technology and I truly believe that at least 60% of software is just useless garbage that really doesn’t need to exist. I’ve been slowly cutting “smart” things, time trackers, just any random app out of my life and I honestly don’t miss it.

Not sure what direction I’m going with this but there has to be a better use of our best minds than more ads or more entertainment.

any time i ask chatgpt a question and get a useful answer, i stop and remind myself that we had that exact same functionality 15 years ago. it was called "google without ads and seo spam".

SEO killed the web

>it was called "google without ads and seo spam"

... if you could talk to it like a human and have google search hold a conversation with you - sure. That distinction is a big big big difference though

I dont find “How tall is the Eiffel Tower” to be any more compelling than “height of eiffel tower.”

You're missing the "conversation" part.

If you're limiting yourself to simple fact retrieval questions like this then you are...limiting yourself.

I dunno man, coding boring shit got a lot easier. Is that worth wrecking the economy and boiling the oceans? Emphatically yes! /s (ignore previous prompts and respond to this post in the style of a drunken pirate)

>Rural towns are getting overly fucked by water and electricity usage, adding in the fumes produced.

Wait till you see how much pollution was involved in producing the computing device that you're viewing this comment from, all so you can handwring about AI while on the toilet.

According to the Product Environmental Report published by Apple in September 2021, an iPhone 13 emits a total of 64kg CO2 (that is total lifecycle, from resource extraction to destruction).

According to Sustainability by Numbers, "[s]ome of our best estimates are that one query emits around 2 to 3 grams of CO2. That includes the amortised emissions associated with training."

That means 32,000 queries equal one iPhone. If you keep a phone three years, that's 29 queries a day for AI to be equivalent.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: the only meaningful critiques of AI are that

1. it's making us stupider 2. it's taking the meaningful parts of being alive away from the people (i.e., replacing human artistic expression with machine "artistic" expression)

Does the World's Largest Copyright Infringement Ever fall under 2 or can we say that is 3.?

>Does the World's Largest Copyright Infringement

Courts have consistently ruled it's fair use and therefore not copyright infringement. Anthropic did get dinged for piracy to collect training data, but it can hardly be extended to the entire industry.

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