• @AnonomousWolf@lemmy.world
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    If you ever take a flight for holiday, or even drive long distance and cry about AI being bad for the environment then you’re a hypocrite.

    Same goes for if you eat beef, or having a really powerful gaming rig that you use a lot.

    There are plenty of valid reasons AI is bad, but the argument for the environment seems weak, and most people using it are probably hypocrites. It’s barely a drop in the bucket compared to other things

    • @Jankatarch@lemmy.world
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      Texas has just asked residents to take less showers while datacenters made specifically for LLM training continue operating.

      This is more like feeling bad for not using a paper straw while local factory dumps all their oil change into the community river.

    • @BroBot9000@lemmy.world
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      8 days ago

      Ahh so are you going to acknowledge the privacy invasion and brain rotting cause by Ai or are you just going to focus on dismissing the environmental concerns? Cause I linked more than just the environmental impacts.

      • @Draces@lemmy.world
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        Uh dismissing that concern seems like valid point? Do people have to comprehensively discredit the whole list to reply?

    • @SugarCatDestroyer@lemmy.world
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      Hypocrisy can be called the primitive nature of man who chooses what is easier because he is designed that way. Human is like a cancerous tumor for the planet.

      • @CXORA@aussie.zone
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        97 days ago

        When someone disagrees with me - echo chamber.

        When someone agrees with me - logical discussion.

        • @Sl00k@programming.dev
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          36 days ago

          Then why are you guys avoiding a logical discussion around environmental impact instead of spouting misinformation?

          The fact of the matter is eating a single steak or lb of ground beef will eclipse all most peoples AI usage. Obviously most can’t escape driving, but for those of us in cities biking will far eclipse your environmental impact than not using AI.

          Serving AI models aren’t even as bad as watching Netflix, this counterculture to AI is largely misdirected anger that thrown towards unregulated capitalism. Unregulated data centers. Unregulated growth.

          Training is bad but training is a small piece of the puzzle that happens infrequently, and again circles back to the unregulated problem.

          • @CXORA@aussie.zone
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            36 days ago

            It is easier to oppose a new thing than change ingrained habits.

            If your house is on fire, it is reasonable to be mad at someone who throws a little torch onto it.