It’s becoming painfully obvious that there is no way to ethically use frontier models powered by these monstrosities. It is currently 100 F in Tuckahoe, the largest city in Henrico County… and they’re asking people to not use electricity so that these heat-and-pollution-generating slop factories can use it instead.
It is currently 100 F in Tuckahoe, the largest city in Henrico County… and they’re asking people to not use electricity so that these heat-and-pollution-generating slop factories can use it instead.
In other words, this shit is killing people? I don’t think many houses in the US are made so that you can survive 38°C outside without A/C ?
Oh, there are definitely ethical ways to use these models. It’s just that those methods are not being enforced by local counties or your governments. Thus, companies are able to do whatever the hell they want, which means it’s going to be unethical by default.
What we need is regulation, enforcement, and a stop letting these companies trample all over everything they want to.
No, there really isn’t. The frontier models are created through massive plagiarism. They’re designed to be addictive to use. They consume massive amounts of resources to feed you slop. They are inherently unethical. We’re burning the planet down to keep them running, and we don’t even have a demonstrable financial ROI to show for it.
Stop using them. If your employer makes you use them, maliciously comply by wasting tokens until the financial pain is too great for them to bear and they stop. If you yourself are addicted, switch to small, local, open-source, open-weight models you can run yourself. You won’t burn the world down running a small model on your own computer.
It’s becoming painfully obvious that there is no way to ethically use frontier models powered by these monstrosities. It is currently 100 F in Tuckahoe, the largest city in Henrico County… and they’re asking people to not use electricity so that these heat-and-pollution-generating slop factories can use it instead.
This is insanity.
In other words, this shit is killing people? I don’t think many houses in the US are made so that you can survive 38°C outside without A/C ?
The only reasonable response to these requests is fuck you figure out your data center power issues yourself.
Power is for the people.
They are being paid. Why else would they doom their own people? You won’t stop it if you don’t stop them.
Oh, there are definitely ethical ways to use these models. It’s just that those methods are not being enforced by local counties or your governments. Thus, companies are able to do whatever the hell they want, which means it’s going to be unethical by default.
What we need is regulation, enforcement, and a stop letting these companies trample all over everything they want to.
No, there really isn’t. The frontier models are created through massive plagiarism. They’re designed to be addictive to use. They consume massive amounts of resources to feed you slop. They are inherently unethical. We’re burning the planet down to keep them running, and we don’t even have a demonstrable financial ROI to show for it.
Stop using them. If your employer makes you use them, maliciously comply by wasting tokens until the financial pain is too great for them to bear and they stop. If you yourself are addicted, switch to small, local, open-source, open-weight models you can run yourself. You won’t burn the world down running a small model on your own computer.