i watched this video and its a great response. i'd like to highlight one point they made:
Ordell compared "smart people" getting trapped in AI usage with the mentality of someone who THINKS they're smart enough to not get stuck in a cult, and then falling for the cult anyway...
my mother broke her femur last fall, and the hospital used AI to "analyze" her X Rays after her first surgery. it hallucinated a second fracture in her ankle, and she was being prepped for a second surgery when a doctor finally looked at them and realized
Holy shit... Wired reports that back in May, the U.S. Military was testing an experimental GPS jammer and and caused a civilian plane to crash into the side of a mountain, killing everyone on board.
As the Earth gets hotter, the seasons get more extreme, & the disasters get closer to your home, there will be an increased focus on convincing you these conditions are the result of the many’s existence, instead of capitalism, which loots the world to line the pockets of a few.
your critique of ai cannot be entrenched in aesthetics because there will be a time when you see an ai image or hear an ai song and think "that looks/sounds good". your critique of ai must always be entrenched in the poisonous effect it has on people's brains and the planet.
Something that radicalised me was learning that the "carbon footprint" concept was popularised by the fossil fuel industry to shift public focus on climate change towards individual consumers n their lifestyle instead of at the corporations that are knowingly destroying the earth
genuinely evil that when I was a child I worried about this only to be told "they'll fix it don't worry" only for them not to fix it and actively make it worse
So if I purchase a DVD and digitize it, that’s copyright infringement. But if an AI company buys my book and scans it to train their system, that’s perfectly fine? Once again, corporations are allowed to play by their own rules. I’m so sick of the hypocrisy.
Half of the country is in "exceptionally serious drought" - putting us at more risk of wildfires and threatening our food security.
Meanwhile water companies are wasting a staggering 2.87 billion litres of water every day through leaky pipes.
Time to end water privatisation.
The Greens wanting a pause on AI data centres to have proper regulation around them and their power and water use etc is completely reasonable and acting like it’s the same as thinking 5G gives you cancer is just silly.