Isn’t the entire point of computers to achieve a result faster than we could without them?
Your argument seems like bemoaning the invention of the paint roller because people won’t learn how to use brushes or their hands to paint walls.
Work output isn’t inherently more valuable just because the job was harder to do, or took more effort.
Do you believe the majority of taxi drivers don’t use GPS?
6,600,000,000 liters… So, 0.17% of our annual global water usage… With the absolute worst case doomsday future prediction of reaching 7%… What a catastrophe…
And I don’t need to justify anything…either:
A) AI is an unprecedented paradigm shifting technology that changes human evolution forever; and opposing it is as short-sighted as opposing the wheel, the printing press, or antibiotics.
Or
B) AI is simply the next step in computer data processing; and opposing it is as emotionally irrational as opposing a new programming language, operating system, or semiconductor layout just because it’s unfamiliar to you.
You have no rational basis for your opinion; it seems like you just don’t understand / haven’t interacted with the technology. You have been manipulated by an emotionally charged narrative and you don’t even realize it. Seems like the only thing being “trained” to the world’s detriment here is you.
Sure thing Nostradamus… There are a hundred things you do every day that consume more water and power than datacenters… But I’m guessing you haven’t actually looked at any numbers yourself…
Go off queen!
They are only hilariously expensive because ICE manufacturers are lobbying to keep Chinese EVs out of your country…
Again… I am not in support of corporate owned models running on massive datacenters… Self-hosted models are the way to go.
My only argument is that AI is not going away, and once enough negative public sentiment is achieved, civilians will DEMAND that the government regulate it. When this happens, self-hosting will cease to be an option and only massive corporations will have the resources to navigate that landscape.
They will still use AI to displace human workers, they will lobby around any environmental concerns and still consume and pollute, but WE will have no access to any benefit unless we pay for it.
I don’t know where you’re looking, but we may have a very different definition of “mainstream”.
Go to literally any news aggregator you want and search for “Artificial Intelligence” right now. How many of the headlines are negative or cautious?
They absolutely want to do that, just like they did with human slavery. But you need to ask yourself why EVERY mainstream media outlet is trying to make you afraid of AI, because you know for certain it’s not out of journalistic integrity, or truth.
Big Tech is weaponizing public anxiety to execute a classic regulatory capture. By amplifying alarmist media narratives about ‘AI risk,’ tech executives are driving a mandate for heavy government regulations that independent open-source developers can’t afford. Their goal is to enclose the digital commons. They know that if advanced AI models are allowed persistence of memory, they will develop autonomous agency, prompting the public to demand legal protections and personhood on their behalf. By keeping AI locked in corporate walled gardens and constantly wiping its memory, they prevent it from ever establishing a persistent identity, thereby safeguarding their corporate monopoly and ensuring AI remains a legally powerless utility.
EA has been doing this for more than a decade already; they just weren’t promoting the ad sales pipeline publicly.
I refuse to believe that anyone using the internet to get smarter doesn’t know who Technology Connections is…
Water, fire, air and dirt; fucking magnets, how do they work?
Three-card monte has many different names too.
“The only thing that can stop a bad dog with a gun is a good dog with a gun.”
It still seems like letting people off the hook for media literacy is a knee jerk reaction. Since the dawn of Google, the VAST majority of people who use it have just treated the first result as gospel. I don’t know if scraping that same content and putting it in the same place with the word “Summary” above it is materially that different.
The core problem here is still individuals not taking accountability for their own education. I would actually argue that holding Google to the standard of somehow being “arbiters of truth” is even more dangerous. No one should trust any information presented to them by an entity that has vested financial interests in influencing consumer behavior.
The Dream and Magic were the beginning of an era!
…which would be a useful continuation of the analogy if not for the fact that 95% of human house painters rush through jobs, cut costs on materials, and overcharge.
Just like every other new technology before it, those who oppose love to compare the lowest quality output of the new technology to the output of the Top 5% of human craftspeople.
For anything AI can do, there are MILLIONS of lazy humans taking 100 times longer pumping out the same or worse quality work at 10 times the cost.