my ol pal be really shittin, what’s up with that
WOW! SO COOL! SO LIFELIKE! I BET WE COULD EVEN GET PEOPLE TO KILL THEMSELVES WITH THIS! INNOVATION! AWESOME! WOWEE! I LOVE TECH AND I FUCKING LOVE SCIENCE! WOWEE MCWOWERSON, LINE GO UPPIES!!! WEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
Every time I hear “but it can be useful sometimes in specific niche cases” I still hear the crackle of rainforests burning so someone can jack off to the infinite boobs generator, because the previous boobs that were already paid for with previous burned rainforest weren’t enough.
You can host most stuff on a single computer these days but that doesn’t take away from any of the philosophical ick
The massive increase in electricity costs and carbon footprint is just the wide scale “AI” grifts pushed by the corpos that basically have free rein to continue doing so then.
yeah the individual cost of anything is going to pale in comparison to the unsustainable wide-scale industrialization of that same thing. especially when it’s something as exponentially costly as AI/techshit
That’s why I feel a deep groaning dread whenever some bloated tech company announces that its entire upcoming product line or service model is going to be “powered by AI.”
“we will be killing thirty thousand extra tracts of land for these silicone doohickeys!”