I know ai is bad and on another level of resource usage. But I can’t help but think it’s a bit one-sided and self protecting to ignore that we as people in this earth have been behaving the same way since the industrialization (and before that, but we didn’t have the capacity to have an impact on the earth).
We consume and consume more because we are used to it and somehow think we are entitled to these resources that are there.
Now it affects the prices for consumer hardware and that is somehow personal. I am convinced if that weren’t the case the ai outrage would be very small and mostly about fringe ethical issues.
Yes we participate in society and yes its basically impossible to avoid data center usage and yes ai data centers are worse. But where is the line of demarcation that separates right from wrong?
Are datacenters like slugs or buckets of salt in any way like computers or what am I missing here
Data centers are like slugs in that the heads of them are slimy voracious consumers of every resource around them without regard to the harm they do.
They wrote on a phone while browsing a social network…
Is it though?
I know ai is bad and on another level of resource usage. But I can’t help but think it’s a bit one-sided and self protecting to ignore that we as people in this earth have been behaving the same way since the industrialization (and before that, but we didn’t have the capacity to have an impact on the earth).
We consume and consume more because we are used to it and somehow think we are entitled to these resources that are there.
Now it affects the prices for consumer hardware and that is somehow personal. I am convinced if that weren’t the case the ai outrage would be very small and mostly about fringe ethical issues.
Yes we participate in society and yes its basically impossible to avoid data center usage and yes ai data centers are worse. But where is the line of demarcation that separates right from wrong?
well the acceptance line of AI usage is definitely not at using an independent social media phone on a smartphone
social networks aren’t nearly as voracious as AI, especially if they’re decentralized like Lemmy
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