Comment on AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast
GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Great use of RAM and electricity.
…Not!
Devil’s Advocate: This was used for entertainment, if you think this is a huge waste of electricity then so is gaming en especially flying.
If you criticize people using AI for entertainment then you also need to criticize people who take flights on holiday, as that’s a LOT more damaging for the environment.
Nah. I can be mad at both.
If you’re mad at both, great. But I see a lot of hypocrisy.
People getting angry at others using AI because of the environment, but then taking flights on holiday when they could take a train.
It’s like back then when crypto was a thing. People will studiously ignore that data centers are a drop in the ocean of energy consumption compared to the value they produce, and that even futile uses are not that significant in the grand scheme of things.
This looks more to me like leaving the lights on in every unoccupied room in the house
Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
How so? It’s used entertainment.
Just like playing games
flowers_galore2@lemmynsfw.com 3 weeks ago
Resource abuse is far, far worse than your games. There’s a reason no one wants to disclose it.
Etterra@discuss.online 3 weeks ago
The amount of data used by your PC to run any game is dwarfed by orders of magnitude by the energy consumption of the data centers needed to run these AI abominations. That’s why China’s version that uses less energy (supposedly) was such big news.
mad_djinn@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
anything goes as long as it makes SOMEONE happy.