The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.

Absolutely needed: to get high efficiency for this beast … as it gets better, we’ll become too dependent.

“all of this growth is for a new technology that’s still finding its footing, and in many applications—education, medical advice, legal analysis—might be the wrong tool for the job,”

    • OmgItBurns@discuss.onlineEnglish
      61·
      1 day ago

      Nothing wrong with examining potential issues for emerging technology before they become actual issues.

      • Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.worldEnglish
        54·
        1 day ago

        For sure, and I agree. But that isn’t what happens around here. Instead we turn to panic rather than skepticism. We are cynical more than anything. And I don’t trust cynicism about topical subjects.

        This wasn’t well reasoned objectivism. It was journalist and artist fearing for their jobs about technology they don’t understand. They generate a lot of content to generate panic. The mob saw the panic and adopted it. You’re not a true lefty unless you accept that AI is some new danger to the threat of the lowly creative.

        • Feathercrown@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 hours ago

          Do you disagree that AI presents an existential threat to our current way of life, and that a new way of life may be worse, and that we should therefore plan ahead before plunging in?

          • Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            1 hour ago

            I’m going to ask you something and please think about it. I have a belief that media highlighted these dangers in the same way the right wing media highlighted the dangers of immigration. If I look at articles, the framework is the same. The details are different, but it’s the same scaffolding. That puts my hair up.

            So to answer your question, yes I think AI poses a danger. That doesn’t mean I don’t embrace it or look forward to it positively. I believe we need to push the other way. Embrace and seize it. Force awareness of it and force legislation or cultural views that puts it in a better place for these tools to remain open Source. We have to be the primary consumers to influence it.