The amount of physical resources used by AI is hilariously small. These chips are fucking tiny. The largest metal use is the heat spreader, which is just a chunk of aluminum that could be instantly recycled. The “special” metals they use up take less than a gram total per card. All of it is recyclable if those resources become difficult to extract naturally for some reason.
Your take on AI being used to produce fascist slop is amusing, but irrelevant. You could ban every datacenter in Canada and the US, and AI would still be used by bad people to hurt you. I can run lighter models on any computer at this point, and top of the line models like Kimi K3 can be run on a set up that costs less than a car. You can’t stop that short of turning off the internet entirely.
The correct method to addressing the issue of fascist slop isn’t stopping AI from being built, it’s to change the situation in which that is possible. Fascism has existed for all of human history. Education is the correct method to stop it spreading.
Too bad it’s still a huge waste of the earths natural resources to produce fascist slop.
Which resources exactly?
The amount of physical resources used by AI is hilariously small. These chips are fucking tiny. The largest metal use is the heat spreader, which is just a chunk of aluminum that could be instantly recycled. The “special” metals they use up take less than a gram total per card. All of it is recyclable if those resources become difficult to extract naturally for some reason.
Your take on AI being used to produce fascist slop is amusing, but irrelevant. You could ban every datacenter in Canada and the US, and AI would still be used by bad people to hurt you. I can run lighter models on any computer at this point, and top of the line models like Kimi K3 can be run on a set up that costs less than a car. You can’t stop that short of turning off the internet entirely.
The correct method to addressing the issue of fascist slop isn’t stopping AI from being built, it’s to change the situation in which that is possible. Fascism has existed for all of human history. Education is the correct method to stop it spreading.