• Kirp123@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    Chess engines didn’t require data centers that guzzle water and spit out pollution like an 18th century factory.

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      12 hours ago

      Here we go again!

      You conflate one type of AI with all the other ones. Call it LLM or generative AI.

      I programmed AI 20 years ago, it still is AI but doesn’t use datacenters. I programmed deep neural networks ten years ago, it did not use datacenters either.

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        And that’s why no one is opposed to those.

        You didn’t pirate the collective works of humanity to train on, while under a society that requires intellectual property rights to ensure those creators are compensated, in order to undercut them twice (once to train and once to replace them)

        You didn’t pollute the sky, dry the soil, bulldoze people’s homes to make your chessbot.

        You didn’t corner the market on components to brute force the solution to declare yourself computer god, where everyone must come to you for compute.

        Gen AI seeks to replace humans and it’s not even sentient. I don’t give a single fuck how useful a fancy algorithm is, it’s not ok with me if it’s designed to destroy my life.

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          7 hours ago

          No but we did all that for Taylor swift and Walmart. Hopefully you don’t do anything with any major brands at all.

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          Well do the work and call it for what it is, not just “AI”.

          Generative AI.

          LLM

          Is it truly that hard?

          I mean you seem to want to, and thus we can have a discussion about it, which I favour instead of having people just being generally angry it seems.

          The day when it doesn’t crush the environment, should we use gen AI to help us in our daily lives? Or should we not? Is there something good in it? Or isn’t it? I’d love seing constructive discussions but they just get globbed by people thinking with their gut it seems. Like if you don’t hate “AI” then you’re pro genocide.

          Sorry for the rant!

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      12 hours ago

      They did, just on a smaller scale, and they used all games ever played by high-level players. LLMs and image generators were stealing data years before they became viable. And nobody gave a shit.

      Let’s not pretend most people give a shit about ethics or the environment. Those were impacted long before AI became viable in any way. People hate on AI because it’s affecting everyday prices and employment. Ethics and environment are just convenient shiny arguments few actually stand behind.

      If tomorrow billionaires turned around and said “actually, here’s UBI for everyone, provided by AI!”, most people would be cheering on intellectual theft and destruction of this earth, and call everyone still against it selfish and regressive.

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        Ethics and environmental destruction are “convenient shiny arguments”?? Go fuck yourself you delusional shill. Praying for a billionaire saviour while gagging on their boots, fuck you.

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          Most people don’t give a shit about ethics and the environment. They care about the well being of themselves, the well being those close to them, and their comfort, ABOVE ALL ELSE. even if they won’t admit it to themselves.

          Delusional? I wish I was. Look at the last 30 years, how many protested to get climate change taken seriously? How many raised their voices against various human rights violations around the world? A drop in a bucket, that’s how many. Most people just don’t give a shit about anything that doesn’t affect them and it’s plain to see.

          So yes, for majority of people, ethics and environmental destruction are “convenient shiny arguments” that make them feel good about themselves when they virtue signal them on social media and then forget about them 5min later.

          Curse me all you want, the world of today is of our collective making.