I don’t actually think AI is doing all of those things. I think the economy is already fucked and AI is a scapegoat for companies who were going to lay off a bunch of people anyway. I don’t think the water and electricity consumption compares to the meat industry, but I could be wrong. I think it’s weird that there is such an outrage over AI but not cattle, but I guess because people like beef more than they like hallucinated AI results.
It’s probably a good idea to self-host your own AI for privacy reasons alone, if you use it.
I mean the meat industry (fucked up as the factory farms are) produces food. that’s very different from the ai industry, which in it’s current state produces nothing of value. I get your point, but comparing where a lot of our food comes from to the ai industry isn’t really a fair comparison.
I’m not gonna sit here and argue about whether it’s ok to eat meat or not. the point is that supporting cloud-based AI is taking up a ton of resources and isn’t providing much benefit for it compared to local AI. not sure why you took it in that direction in the first place, but using up nearly all of our ability to manufacture computer parts, large areas of land, lots of electricity, and lots of clean water, all for barely any benefit, is much worse in terms of resource usage (again, not going to argue about the morality of meat here) than sustaining cattle.
I’m not saying that all that stuff is good, I’m saying that focusing on the environment aspect is weird when the environmental aspect is minuscule compared to all of the other stuff we do.
The other factors you mentioned such as increasing RAM prices are pretty much exclusive to ai and thus a better argument against it. Most people have computers or want a computer, most people have a phone, and so on
I don’t actually think AI is doing all of those things. I think the economy is already fucked and AI is a scapegoat for companies who were going to lay off a bunch of people anyway. I don’t think the water and electricity consumption compares to the meat industry, but I could be wrong. I think it’s weird that there is such an outrage over AI but not cattle, but I guess because people like beef more than they like hallucinated AI results.
It’s probably a good idea to self-host your own AI for privacy reasons alone, if you use it.
I mean the meat industry (fucked up as the factory farms are) produces food. that’s very different from the ai industry, which in it’s current state produces nothing of value. I get your point, but comparing where a lot of our food comes from to the ai industry isn’t really a fair comparison.
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I’m not gonna sit here and argue about whether it’s ok to eat meat or not. the point is that supporting cloud-based AI is taking up a ton of resources and isn’t providing much benefit for it compared to local AI. not sure why you took it in that direction in the first place, but using up nearly all of our ability to manufacture computer parts, large areas of land, lots of electricity, and lots of clean water, all for barely any benefit, is much worse in terms of resource usage (again, not going to argue about the morality of meat here) than sustaining cattle.
I’m not saying that all that stuff is good, I’m saying that focusing on the environment aspect is weird when the environmental aspect is minuscule compared to all of the other stuff we do.
The other factors you mentioned such as increasing RAM prices are pretty much exclusive to ai and thus a better argument against it. Most people have computers or want a computer, most people have a phone, and so on