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.
The amount of resources is huge. We’re not just talking about electricity. We’re talking agricultural farm land that’s being bought up in huge swaths to build these data centers. We’re talking building materials. We’re talking all the raw materials needed to build the computer parts themselves. They’re phenominally huge.
And the fascist slop they’re talking about is how the largest service providers of AI are manipulating their models to give false information, and even twist it to reflect a certain pro-capitalism and pro-fascist narrative. We’re not talking about some dude creating a model for whatever malicious intent for personal use. We’re talking models being used by the greater public, consuming the information they are given as fact, when in fact that information is manipulated to skew public opinion.
Also, for the record, when people are talking about “AI”, they’re talking about ChatGPT, Copilot, Grok, Gemini, Claude, etc. The major service providers.
Otherwise AI is a godsend for many fields, including science and medicine and other kinds of important research. It should never have been created by stealing copyrighted material, by going through Reddit and Twitter archives full of memes, bullshit, sarcasm and lies and then made accessible to the greater public.
But now these companies are trying to commodify intelligence and they’re using their billions to influence governments to force this shit on everyone.
I never needed AI in my life. And the little I have used it, gave me godawful results. And in the meantime, the data centers running all this are wreaking ecological havoc.
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.
Are you brainwashed, or simply brain dead?
The amount of resources is huge. We’re not just talking about electricity. We’re talking agricultural farm land that’s being bought up in huge swaths to build these data centers. We’re talking building materials. We’re talking all the raw materials needed to build the computer parts themselves. They’re phenominally huge.
And the fascist slop they’re talking about is how the largest service providers of AI are manipulating their models to give false information, and even twist it to reflect a certain pro-capitalism and pro-fascist narrative. We’re not talking about some dude creating a model for whatever malicious intent for personal use. We’re talking models being used by the greater public, consuming the information they are given as fact, when in fact that information is manipulated to skew public opinion.
Also, for the record, when people are talking about “AI”, they’re talking about ChatGPT, Copilot, Grok, Gemini, Claude, etc. The major service providers.
Otherwise AI is a godsend for many fields, including science and medicine and other kinds of important research. It should never have been created by stealing copyrighted material, by going through Reddit and Twitter archives full of memes, bullshit, sarcasm and lies and then made accessible to the greater public.
But now these companies are trying to commodify intelligence and they’re using their billions to influence governments to force this shit on everyone.
I never needed AI in my life. And the little I have used it, gave me godawful results. And in the meantime, the data centers running all this are wreaking ecological havoc.