Summary:
I downvoted pro-AI comments in a post in leftymemes community. It was LLM generated polandball comic (Which is objectively pathetic as fuck) that showed up on my feed, blocked couple of users who I thought were unhinged, and have blocked the whole instance on my client after realizing how rabid these morons are.
I didn't go looking for AI posts like a vigilante.
One user in question got miffed for being downvoted and banned me from places they moderate.
I think the same was said on ozone destroying gases and leaded gasoline. Look where they're currently. Or should we also encurage the "anti-corporate" use of those? Maybe even stop our fight against big plastic, because open-source plastic making could be an advantage over the corporate stuff?
These are laughably incomparable. You literally can't use freon or leaded gasoline without causing damage. You can run computers entirely on clean, renewable energy. The issue is the energy generation and mass-scale inefficient use of resources.
Small AI models can be hosted on a laptop. Unless you are advocating for abandoning computers as a technology?
If we didn't waste energy and resource on the AI, it wouldn't be as accessible and advanced as currently is, which is fine by me, but not by those who think the AI is like a "little person in the computer", or that a super AI will solve all of humanity's problems, including those caused by said AI.
Those are issues with generalist corporate AI designed to replace human labor and search engines. Not small, open-source image generators.
The issue, as always, is that we have dragged our feet on renewables for over half a century, and allowed massive corporations to steer our usage of resources to massive, inefficient "convenience" systems designed to extract as much wealth as possible at the cost of the environment and humanity's future.
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/19314224