iโm so serious if generative ai ceased to exist tomorrow, nothing in my life would change except for the fact that iโd be less pissed off and frustrated and that most of the apps i use would start working properly again lmfao
If generative AI went away today, the only thing that would change for me is that the user experience on a bunch of platforms I use would get insanely better.
โFarms use more water than data centres.โ
Yeah, because farms produce food. You can eat food. You canโt eat the AI slop filling up your Facebook feed.
NO ONE wants Data Centers. NO ONE wants their cars tracking your every movements. NO ONE wants Flock camera's. So who the fuck is installing them? And why are we just taking it???
These four men have the ability to end all the suffering that exists in our world, yet they have dedicated their lives to prolonging that suffering for their own greed and profit.
i used to be against buying hundreds of books at once just for the sake of having them bc it was very consumeristic BUT NOW?? after the news that theyโre destroying books to train ai?? buy all the books. matter of fact buy more copies of the same book idc, we need physical copies
"There's no way you can write a ten page paper without chatGPT"
WE COULD LITERALLY DO EVERYTHING THAT EVER HAPPENED IN HUMAN HISTORY WITHOUT CHATGPT WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT.
Texas just made weed a felony after over 70% of voters voted to legalize it. Is this what we call a democracy when the representatives of a state will openly defy the will of voters because incarceration rates went down so much and prisons lost money? Texas is a fucking republican-ran hellhole.
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.
Because high speed rail reduces reliance on cars, which reduces demand for gas, which would reduce gas prices, which would reduce prices of goods and services, which would cut into profits of the ruling class.
Data centers on the other hand are instruments of AI financial fraud.
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