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Too damn much for the value it creates.
AI slop poisoning is value too. The more everything is poisoned by it, the less useful things trained on new data are. The poison spreads in many ways, it’s not something that can be removed.
It’s important for prevention of totalitarianism driven by such technologies in the future.
So I honestly hope it kills the bullshit web and we’ll be back to small communities based on personal ties, where the person making the rules is the webmaster you know, not an anonymous moderator or a bot. That’s killing two birds with one stone, no downsides whatsoever.
An unholy amount.
An amount guaranteed to spike climate targets a decade early.
Stoopid much.
The oil industry must be so giddy to have found a new scape goat out of nowhere.
Datacenters take a lot of energy because they serve a lot of people. The impact can be lessened with a proper grid centered around renewable.
There are actual things that are fucking up the planet, individuals using AI, gaming or having a Google account aren’t the actual issue.
Which means it uses a crazy amount.
When Microsoft is buying nuclear power plants, what could go wrong!?
Replace the CEOs with ai or fuck off
Trying to force the singularity, I see
No I just wanna see the CEO class reap what they’ve sown.
Could you imagine getting fired by your AI CEO because it hallucinated your name into an AI-generated post mortem of a crash caused by AI-generated code
I been fired for less
at least 3
Ai is destroying our planet. Stop fucking using it.
I read somewhere recently that AI data center open loop water cooling systems drain 100 million liters of freshwater a day and evaporate it away.
Would you mind sharing where you read that?
This isn’t the article I read but it has tons of info about this:
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-ai-impacts-data-centers-water-data/
It’s so annoying when you try to discuss this because often a gaggle of idiots come out and point, superficially, that water gets recycled into nature. They always ignore the cost of making that water fit for human usage.
A problem is that the information is not in the hands of the company selling the AI. The actual hardware is often owned by service providers and independent data centers.
They know exactly what the power consumption of that hardware is though. This isnt tough to figure out just because you use a cloud provider
