Hate not so much for AI in and of itself, my ire is the resource use for one. We were already draining aquifers that took thousands of years to fill and now we’re burning even more for datacenters (DCs).
To top it off, America’s western deserts are the best place for DCs. No natural disasters, stable and predictable weather, tectonically inactive. Every time I’ve had to pick a primary or backup DC, I’d hit one in Las Vegas or somewhere out west. (This experience was pre-AI.)
These DCs are burning power and causing higher bills to consumers, which is just fucking obscene. States should legislate that DCs have to bring at least some of their own, dedicated renewables, and pay a premium to the power company for the extra stress and maintenance on the grid. These costs should not touch customers, residential or business.
Maybe even worse is the economic aspect. Have a look at the current Buffett Index, the ratio of the total United States stock market to GDP. We topped 200% for the first time, ever. For comparison, the Great Depression and Great Recession were around 120-130%. This “extra” stock market valuation is all due to AI speculation.
So for all the other whining lemmy does about AI, it’s the ecosystem and economic disasters it’s creating that we’ll all remember when the bubble pops.
Nangijala@feddit.dk 2 days ago
Lol. For me I just get impatient with AI. Most of the time the things I tried to use it for, it either couldn’t do, did poorly or did wrong. It was simply easier for me to do the shit myself instead of burning the planet by doing 50 prompts to get one useful result.
I tried it, learned about the environmental costs and then I stopped using it. The only thing its good for is for super basic bitch translations like that one time I didn’t know what a particular mathematical formular was like in English and I couldn’t find an answer after searching manually for awhile.
That’s the only time AI was helpful to me.
And honestly, I just don’t trust that is can help me with what I need it for 99% of the time because it just makes shit up constantly. I can’t justify using this tool when the only useful result I ever gave me was the correct way to say a mathematical formulae in English. That is just too fucking weak. I am much better at looking for answers myself, writing and drawing things than any AI will ever be because I know what the fuck I want and I can make it myself while the AI has no idea what it’s doing and only looks good to people who has zero reading comprehension nor visual literacy.
Like, I think AI music can be pretty good but I’m also a musical retard and I have no idea how to listen to music like a real musician, so to me it sounds good, but to someone who knows what they are doing, I’m sure AI music sounds like ass.
That’s me with AI writing and artwork.