Comment on Google's AI-powered search summaries use 10x more energy than a standard Google search | The Hidden Environmental Impact of AI

• sunbeam60@lemmy.one ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Against bunker oil shipping, coal power plants, diesel cars, cement, our consumable appetite for plastic, gas and oil based heating, air travel, cooling buildings to 19 C when the outside is 38 C, ammonia based fertiliser, fast fashion, maintaining perfect green lawns in desert environments, driving monster trucks with one passengers on 18-lane highways, dismantling public transport, building glass skyscrapers with no external shade, buying new TVs every second year etc etc I think AI’s reputation as a carbon emitter, especially considering most of Azure, CG and AWS runs on renewables, is overblown and used as a battering ram in a larger battle that comes from very real concerns about how AI is changing our society.

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  • quick@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    most of Azure, CG and AWS runs on renewables

    Yeah definitely believing that

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  • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    1. if each of those contributors to wrecking our planet points to the other causes as a justification to not limit their own damage, we’re fucked
    2. it’s not AI. It’s large language models. Glorified statistical text prediction without any originality. It just appears to some naive humans as original because it regurgitates ideas to them that other people have had but they just hadn’t heard before
    3. despite the misnaming, I agree that there’s a real concern that it makes the majority of users even more stupid than mankind on average already is :/

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