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In reply to the discussion: So what's so bad about using AI any way? [View all]
Blue Full Moon
(3,767 posts)5. All of the GNP is data centers.
The centers are using our water that we all need to live on. It's stealing the electricity and infrastructure with zero benefit except the billionaires who built it. They will kill thousands. But then there is Bezos, that human water consumption is limiting AI's potential. Surprise is any jobs are very temporary. AI and robots and humans are not needed. This tech every single one of us paid for. We paid for the companies. Most through CIA and In-Q-Tel. Every single one us should be living off of it. The robber barons need to be ended. Corporate personhood should have never been.
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Communities are rising up across the nation in nonpartisan opposition to data centers
Fiendish Thingy
8 hrs ago
#47
The headlines say Elon wants to put the data centers in space, at our expense, and for his profit.
Intractable
8 hrs ago
#54
I don't want to side with Elon here, but your concerns don't seem realistic.
Intractable
4 hrs ago
#65
Using AI requires unquestioning trust and a suspension of critical thinking.
Fiendish Thingy
13 hrs ago
#16
Your experience of the utility of AI is comparable to the utility of Macro commands, data merges and scripts
Fiendish Thingy
7 hrs ago
#56
the problem with AI is separating fact from fiction and knowing what is real vs fake
msongs
18 hrs ago
#4
It's an AI problem because generative AI hallucinates and is a pretense of intelligence, a fancy autocomplete
highplainsdem
10 hrs ago
#24
"I read about an AI agent which bought itself a robot so it could interact in the physical world"
Polybius
13 hrs ago
#12
You think? How about the experiment they did a couple of months ago where they
Scrivener7
12 hrs ago
#20
I guess you've missed the recent news stories about how much younger people dislike genAI.
highplainsdem
11 hrs ago
#21
From Futurism today: Americans Have Turned Against AI in Incredible Numbers
highplainsdem
9 hrs ago
#42
After you work all day talking to an algorithm, will it still remember to pick up milk?
Emile
13 hrs ago
#13
AI destroys critical thinking and makes the whole world dumber and more pliable for the oligarchs. Nt
Fiendish Thingy
13 hrs ago
#14
Re DUers posting and sometimes creating AI images - it makes DU look much less liberal than it should
highplainsdem
11 hrs ago
#22
I've been waiting for this sort of story. First thing I thought when I heard about the school bombing. nt
LAS14
6 hrs ago
#59