• baines@lemmy.cafe
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    2 days ago

    what facts?

    there are literally multiple reports on how the majority of internet traffic is bots

    what a strange hill to die on

    • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
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      2 days ago

      I never said anything about the relative proportion if internet traffic that is or isn’t bots. Does your only argument require a severe misrepresentation of what anyone else is saying?

      The fact is that the datacenters that have been rapidly accelerating the demise of the planet and its climate over the last 5-6 years are specifically AI datacenters. Getting rid of those, completely frivolous and unnecessary as they are, will go a long way to reducing the severity human-induced climate change.

      Getting rid of the datacenters that make the internet possible would be negligible compared to that. But I’m just restating what I’ve already said at this point, because you’re apparently either a troll or incapable of reading and understanding. Maybe both.

      Taking away the internet from the billions of humans who use it just because it’s flooded with bot traffic is a really stupid idea, when you could instead get rid of the datacenters that make the bots possible. The vast majority of compute operating these bots is happening at the bot-side of the internet, not at the datacenters running the internet. The actual amount of energy/compute used for that web traffic to travel from client to server is tiny compared to what’s consumed at the bot farms.

      What you’re proposing is more akin to tearing up the highways in order to prevent drug trafficking. It doesn’t solve the problem you’re pretending to want to address, it’s just a red herring that makes things worse for everyone else.