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[โ€“] ReCursing@lemmings.world -2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Again, we need to shift towards renewables. AI is not the problem you're angry with here, stop railing against new technology and new artistic media and start railing against oil companies

And by new I meant "not over a hundred years old", not "over three months old"

[โ€“] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

you really like someone else doing your job for you:

https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/hidden-costs-ai-impending-energy-and-resource-strain

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/power-mad-ais-massive-energy-demand-risks-causing-major-environmental-headaches-2023-12-04/

https://www.numenta.com/blog/2022/05/24/ai-is-harming-our-planet/

(discalaimer: this is just to argue that these arguments are almost as old chatgpt, I am not endorsing any of the articles above and have not read all)

In a world that is in an energy crisis and cant still produce enough renewable energy to replace most of its non renewables, I am not going to rail new tech but I will rail against billionaires who try to abuse ownership of a new tech to gain more money with questionable returns compared to damage its causing. I am going to note again that this is not railing/criticism against all use cases and development of AI. But for a minute fraction of compute requirements of AI platforms like chatgpt, academics can probably come up with AI/machine learning algorithms that can maybe optimise energy usage and distribution.