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These endless "AI bad" articles are annoying. It's just click bait at this point.
Energy use: false. His example was someone using a 13 year old laptop to get a result and then extrapolating energy use from that. Running ai locally is the same energy as playing a 3d AAA game for the same time. No one screams about the energy footprint of playing games.
AAA game development energy use ( thousands of developers all with watt burning gpus spending years creating assets) dwarfs AI model building energy use.
Copyright, yes it's a problem and should be fixed. But stealing is part of capitalism. Google search itself is based on stealing content and then selling ads to find that content. The entire "oh we might send some clicks your way that you might be able to compensated for" is backwards.
His last reason was new and completely absurd: he doesn't like AI because he doesn't like Musk. Given the public hatred between OpenAI and Musk it's bizarre. Yes Musk has his own AI. But Musk also has electric cars, and space travel. Does the author hate all EV's too? If course not, that argument was added by the author as a troll to get engagement.
Hi, I'm the writer of the article.
To be clear I am not trying to attack anyone who uses AI, just explain why I don't use it myself.
I don't dispute that AI energy is/might be comparable to other things like making a AAA game (or other things like traveling). I also don't want to say that 'AI is bad'. However if I used AI more, I would still play the same amount of video games, thus increasing the total energy use. If I was to use AI it would probably replace lower energy activities like writing or searching the internet.
I agree with you that the copyright angle is a bad way to attack AI, however AI does seem like it 'gives back' to creatives even less than other things like search as well as actively competing with them in a way that search doesn't. This isn't my main objection so I don't really want to focus on it.
I considered leaving out the "I just don't like it" reason but I wanted to be completely transparent that my decision isn't objective. This is only one reason out of many - if it was just this problem then I would be quicker to ignore it. I get your point about EV's - I don't hate them despite the fact that Musk is/was an advocate for them. If I was to use a AI it would be something like Jan.ai which @Flagstaff@programming.dev mentioned.
Do you agree with me on my other main point on reliability?
Then that's like writing about the evils of cars while driving a giant SUV for fun.
The Google AI forced on me in searches has seemed correct because every sentence has a footnote with a link to source that I usually click. The OpenAI code generation I used a year ago was brilliant. It wrote working VBScript for me which was a language I had no desire to learn. The microcontroller code for another project was also fantastic because it gave me an outline to start working with.