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[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (50 children)

I know she's exaggerating but this post yet again underscores how nobody understands that it is training AI which is computationally expensive. Deployment of an AI model is a comparable power draw to running a high-end videogame. How can people hope to fight back against things they don't understand?

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 weeks ago (12 children)

Right, but that's kind of like saying "I don't kill babies" while you use a product made from murdered baby souls. Yes you weren't the one who did it, but your continued use of it caused the babies too be killed.

There is no ethical consumption under capitalism and all that, but I feel like here is a line were crossing. This fruit is hanging so low it's brushing the grass.

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[–] Zacryon@feddit.org 12 points 3 weeks ago

Let's not forget billionaires in this consideration.

[–] leftthegroup@lemmings.world 11 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Didn't some legislation come out banning making laws against AI? (which I realize is a fucking crazy sentence in the first place- nothing besides rights should just get immunity to all potential new laws)

So the cities aren't even the bad guys here. The Senate is.

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[–] ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 9 points 4 weeks ago (28 children)

Two wrongs don't make a right. And if your neighbour is dosing the neighbourhood with gasoline while wildfires are on the horizon, you smack him, you don't go and get your own can.

[–] doeknius_gloek@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Great, now this might work with my neighbor, but how exactly do I smack mega corps and the state? Are we talking eco terrorism here or do you have some other idea that hasn't been tried in the last decades?

I mean, climate change isn't new but humanity still fucks up the planet and that does not seem to change. Why should we have to sweat at home while professionalized greed burns down everything around us? I will gladly take individual responsibility, but not alone.

Actually, a failing power grid here and there might act as a wake-up call and then we can start talking about solutions, not just symptomatic treatment.

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[–] burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

i feel it would actually kill some people to just say, yes, ai uses a lot of power, and no other qualifying statements tacked on

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 points 4 weeks ago

Look, we don't mind if you want to make a picture of a dude with five dicks, as an exercise in equality

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