• Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    These endless “AI bad” articles are annoying. It’s just click bait at this point.

    Energy use: false. His example was someone using a 13 year old laptop to get a result and then extrapolating energy use from that. Running ai locally is the same energy as playing a 3d AAA game for the same time. No one screams about the energy footprint of playing games.

    AAA game development energy use ( thousands of developers all with watt burning gpus spending years creating assets) dwarfs AI model building energy use.

    Copyright, yes it’s a problem and should be fixed. But stealing is part of capitalism. Google search itself is based on stealing content and then selling ads to find that content. The entire “oh we might send some clicks your way that you might be able to compensated for” is backwards.

    His last reason was new and completely absurd: he doesn’t like AI because he doesn’t like Musk. Given the public hatred between OpenAI and Musk it’s bizarre. Yes Musk has his own AI. But Musk also has electric cars, and space travel. Does the author hate all EV’s too? If course not, that argument was added by the author as a troll to get engagement.

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      9 months ago

      Copyright, yes it’s a problem and should be fixed.

      The quick fix: stick to open-source like Jan.ai.

      Long-term solution: make profiting AI companies pay for UBI. How to actually calculate that, though, is anyone’s guess…