Allow me to offer reasons why: just like the blockchain before, the usage of resources is absurd (which is infuriating) for something that barely works (which is laughable), and the tech is being pushed by the same loathable and arrogant grifters that lead us into a wall at full throttle with crypto.
I’m not just snobbing the naive optimists: I’m actually mad at them for what they’re doing to the environment.
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
What crypto wall? Isn’t it back up?
I’d rather have all the AI and crypto than any streaming service or social media that everyone who complains about resources seems to use freely.
FlorianSimon@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I do despise billionaires with their private jets, or owners of gigantic pickup trucks that use them to shop for groceries. I can be mad at multiple things at the same time. It’s not mutually exclusive. And it’s definitely not manufactured.
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m not saying that you’re not. I am saying collectively these points about wasting resources is a bit much considering all the other wastes in relation to the anger those other things generate. It’s not proportional. That isn’t me saying people love it. But I am saying they do use a lot of other things that generate tremendous wastes in similar ways without care.
I usually temper my conviction but on this I will say with confidence it is manufactured. Manufactured in the same way the right despise LGQTB and immigrants. If you were too ask them if their hate was driven by other sources what would they say?
But we all know fox news plays a big part of it. Doesn’t mean those people are not racist or bigots to begin with. But there’s a stoking of the flames. Same here.
FlorianSimon@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
The 2023 AI hype train caused Google’s emissions to dramatically increase †, delaying their efforts to become carbon neutral. This is no small increase, and humans on this planet can’t afford the energy bill, especially if other criminals start emulating Google and consuming TWhs like there’s no tomorrow. All this for tech that doesn’t work and, in the wrong hands, can lead us to a dystopian future.
There are genuine reasons to be mad. And, unlike, say, Big Oil, which has a status quo to uphold, these cynical bastards started their evil businesses after the climate doom era. They have no excuse.
† www.cnn.com/2024/07/03/tech/…/index.html