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Can the climate survive the insatiable energy demands of the AI arms race?
(www.theguardian.com)
Hah, no.
Between billionaires having penis-waggling contests with rockets, megacorps slurping up electricity to feed their LLMs, gigantic Bitcoin miners reopening defunct coal plants to power their operations, and authoritarians cozying up to fossil fuel companies, I think there's a lot more confounding factors to our survival than just bloated LLM processing centers.
It's striking how these technologies do so little of use to ordinary people, yet they hog the world's energy and the media's attention.
Some just want to watch the world burn. Faster.
No. Next question.
Next question: should we stop AI?
Answer: yeah. It’ll only serve as another tool of control by the ownership class while upending the system in favor of the ruling class. Instead of labor fighting back to wrest control of our own futures, this only serves to once again serve the capitalist greed of major corporations while leaving us starving and weak. This iteration of “AI” doesn’t take aim at our problems. It takes aim at our humanity. I’m all for liberating us from work. But that’s not what this will do. If it can manage to live up to 10% of what generative learning companies are promising, it only serves capitalism. Not labor.
this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2024
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