• nyan@lemmy.cafe
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    2 months ago

    Given the amount of electricity training and running all these LLMs requires, they might, like cryptocurrency, become drivers of climate change as they cause polluting generators to be built or unmothballed.

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      2 months ago

      Yeah, it was so much better when there was a war in Europe every 10 years. Let’s go back to that.

    • b161@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      2 months ago

      Capitalism is the problem. Humans use language, learn and can change behaviour over time. We’re not pre-programmed automatons. “Humans are the problem” is doomer talk.

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      2 months ago

      I agree. It’s great to have machines do the work we don’t want to do so we can do other things with our lives.

      We just need to get over this mentality that those who have more deserve more and those who have less deserve less.

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    2 months ago

    Bevause they are doing something for the climate?

    Ohh okay, so the AI is free to prosper 😁

    • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      2 months ago

      i mean the global un is pretty good on it; it’s just that the larger world powers (especially the us every time they have a conservative who goes backward on it) tend to drag their feet on it

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        2 months ago

        I mean I don’t think it’s the UN’s fault they can’t get shit done about climate change, but I still wouldn’t use it as a model

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        2 months ago

        Also China doesn’t want to fix their shit. So they’ll always be a problem.

  • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    “AI” is a scam that’s contributing to planetary destruction. But it’s nowhere near a problem on the same scale. This kind of political theater only fuels the “AI” BS.

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    2 months ago

    « creating an AI fund to back projects in these [poorer] nations, establishing AI standards and data-sharing systems, and creating resources such as training to help nations with AI governance. »

    So basically burn money and energy on some hallucinating algorithm should be as important as investing in green energy and reducing CO2 levels. That makes sense. Like, yeah, totally onboard. What could go wrong?

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      2 months ago

      those ai projects will be countering the climate change projects! government at its usual