To be clear, I haven’t downvoted you. I think it’s a valid reason to hate the technology but well below others like deskilling, proliferation of spam and propaganda, etc. If these data centers were all run on solar power then it’d be less of an issue.
Sure, but surely the data centers illegally running gas turbines in Memphis and Vineland, New Jersey are causing problems that wouldn’t exist without the current hype cycle.
What about those of us who don’t eat meat or fly on a plane ever? Are we allowed to hate GenAI?
Discussions on the internet are hot garbage in part because thanks to LLMs you can’t know what’s real anymore. Of course there were bots before, but any random idiot can pay OpenAI for a subscription now and spam anywhere they want.
GenAI lets teenagers nudify their classmates, creating child porn. Twitter even let you do it directly on the site earlier this year.
Students are using it to do their homework for them and learning nothing; at least with CliffsNotes you got the gist of what you were supposed to be reading. We shouldn’t want a dumber society.
GenAI also makes it substantially easier to post propaganda and spam. Bots on the internet were already common but now trying to find genuine art or conversations is like pulling up steel from ships that sank before 1945 because everything since then has been irradiated.
The US’s dumbfuck government almost started a war with China earlier this year thanks to someone using GenAI. And yeah everyone knows they’re a bunch of fucking idiots but that doesn’t change the fact that it wouldn’t have happened if LLMs didn’t exist.
Calling something just a tool is whitewashing who’s making it and promoting it and what it’s used for. Stop saying that AI is just a tool and it only matters how it is used
I speak Swedish and Allard calls immigrants “fucking parasites” in language that’s about as direct of a translation as you can get: https://www.etc.se/inrikes/martin-melin-om-parasit-kommentaren-borde-ha-markerat
Flock left their ArcGIS data open and he just downloaded all of it.