Again, I really don’t think you get the scale of things here. Do some math before you spout off.
Datacenter land isn’t even a rounding error in the amount of farmland we have. “Huge swaths” for a mega datacenter means a number measured in hundreds of acres. Alberta alone has 50 million farm acres. Lets go crazy with the numbers and say that every mega datacenter is 1000 acres they wanted to build 10 of the things (There aren’t even 10 total planned in the world right now, so that’s not happening). That’s 5000 acres, or 0.01% of the farmland in Alberta.
That is not even worth discussing.
As for your fascist slop arguments, that’s just patently stupid unless you also put humans in the same category. You (through both traditional and social media) are being fed intentional bullshit continuously. You can get the AI to say or do pretty much anything you want, asking it for a recipe with some ingredients in your fridge isn’t going to be pushing some sort of pro-Israel standpoint into your response. It’s no worse than the textbooks we use at a schools in terms of how it approaches certain topics. The only real exception to that is some of the Chinese models refusing to say negative things about the Chinese government, and that’s a well known factor that can be accounted for. This is not a conspiracy against you, it’s ridiculously easy to test for bias in AI and then account for it in your use.
The thing people don’t realize about AI (when they’re referring to ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude, Gemini, etc.) is that basic chat with these models are not what the datacenters are for. We already have enough capacity for your average person to ask them recipe questions and to come up with wording for a birthday card. These datacenters are for the business uses of AI in harnesses looping to complete complex tasks, especially in programming.
Nobody is forcing you to use it personally. I don’t understand this argument.
Businesses WILL use it to make more money because it is beneficial. You could try to avoid buying products and services from companies that use it, but you likely don’t have any choice in that matter since it’s being used almost everywhere already. Even if they aren’t using it to respond to customer emails or answer the phone they’re likely using it in their planning, documentation, or even integrated into their accounting software because it saves them money. Businesses are saving money with AI, even if it’s not some sort of miracle multiplier for everyone.
You want me to share specific examples of people doing bad things with literally every single thing humans have ever invented?
The “sharing” of that image was done using the internet, likely on cellular phones, connected to radio systems, that utilize electricity. Yet it’s somehow’ only AI’s fault that it happened? Like people haven’t been using photoshop to make fake images before that.
Again, I really don’t think you get the scale of things here. Do some math before you spout off.
Datacenter land isn’t even a rounding error in the amount of farmland we have. “Huge swaths” for a mega datacenter means a number measured in hundreds of acres. Alberta alone has 50 million farm acres. Lets go crazy with the numbers and say that every mega datacenter is 1000 acres they wanted to build 10 of the things (There aren’t even 10 total planned in the world right now, so that’s not happening). That’s 5000 acres, or 0.01% of the farmland in Alberta.
That is not even worth discussing.
As for your fascist slop arguments, that’s just patently stupid unless you also put humans in the same category. You (through both traditional and social media) are being fed intentional bullshit continuously. You can get the AI to say or do pretty much anything you want, asking it for a recipe with some ingredients in your fridge isn’t going to be pushing some sort of pro-Israel standpoint into your response. It’s no worse than the textbooks we use at a schools in terms of how it approaches certain topics. The only real exception to that is some of the Chinese models refusing to say negative things about the Chinese government, and that’s a well known factor that can be accounted for. This is not a conspiracy against you, it’s ridiculously easy to test for bias in AI and then account for it in your use.
The thing people don’t realize about AI (when they’re referring to ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude, Gemini, etc.) is that basic chat with these models are not what the datacenters are for. We already have enough capacity for your average person to ask them recipe questions and to come up with wording for a birthday card. These datacenters are for the business uses of AI in harnesses looping to complete complex tasks, especially in programming.
Nobody is forcing you to use it personally. I don’t understand this argument.
Businesses WILL use it to make more money because it is beneficial. You could try to avoid buying products and services from companies that use it, but you likely don’t have any choice in that matter since it’s being used almost everywhere already. Even if they aren’t using it to respond to customer emails or answer the phone they’re likely using it in their planning, documentation, or even integrated into their accounting software because it saves them money. Businesses are saving money with AI, even if it’s not some sort of miracle multiplier for everyone.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/boys-school-shared-ai-generated-nude-images-she-was-expelled-sixth-ward-middle/18306695/
You want me to share specific examples of people doing bad things with literally every single thing humans have ever invented?
The “sharing” of that image was done using the internet, likely on cellular phones, connected to radio systems, that utilize electricity. Yet it’s somehow’ only AI’s fault that it happened? Like people haven’t been using photoshop to make fake images before that.