Anonymous #4 14w

Unironically yeah, most people in college are using it to write all of their middle school, high school, and college essays. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/openai-chatgpt-ai-cheating-education-college-students-school.html Rampant AI Cheating Is Ruining Education Alarmingly Fast

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Anonymous #4 14w

“ai is bad except for what i use it for” the oceans are heating just the same bro

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Anonymous #5 14w

I college student/ employee asked me how “shop” is spelled. He worked in a store and didn’t know how to spell shop. He was not joking at all.

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Anonymous OP 14w

It’s crazy that people in college use the wrong than/then, your/you’re, etc. and nobody bats an eye

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Anonymous #2 14w

And the argument I always get told is “not everyone was educated at the same level” DAWG YOU ARE IN COLLEGE

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Anonymous #2 14w

Then they get offended when you correct them 😭🙏🏼

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Anonymous #2 14w

I’ll give them credit for at least knowing their pronouns😂

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go on reddit you’ll find someone

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Anonymous #4 14w

i’m a substitute and i’ve genuinely watched kids ask ai basic comprehension questions about their class topics. not “explain x process to me like i’m 5” like asking “what are the parts of a cell” as if it’s google

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Anonymous #2 14w

I only do this passively 😭 I’m not the best casual typer

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Anonymous #4 14w

While not a replacement for normal search engines, Chat GPT or specifically Grok can be really useful in finding super specific or niche information that won’t show up in normal search results, even with correct key-words. As an example, I write TV episode reviews quite a bit and wanted to see if a certain writer was the first woman writer for Death in Paradise. Google and Bing were really no help, using AI there saved me from going through multiple seasons of IMDB listenings to find that info.

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Anonymous #18 14w

Especially since Grok by default cites its sources which is really helpful. Like is said, not a replacement for a typical search engine, but very useful for finding really niche stuff.

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Anonymous #16 14w

Right that’s not the proper use of ai imo. If you’re gonna use it, it’s better be questions that the average person won’t be able to answer, imagine or understand nor Google.

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Anonymous #18 14w

Yes exactly. This is exactly what i think ai should be used for.

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Anonymous OP 14w

…society is way too mean to people who are stupid

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Anonymous #4 14w

I definitely use it to replace Google for a lot of stuff. I don’t like Google as much because: 1. Google’s AI is often wrong or irrelevant 2. The results below it are either irrelevant or leads me to websites full of ads, making the articles annoyingly unreadable. 3. Google isn’t conversational like ChatGPT, so asking follow up questions is less efficient

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Anonymous #5 14w

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If anyone would like to prove me wrong here I’d love to see it 😂😂

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Anonymous #4 14w

are your conversations with ai more important than access to water? negating climate change? burning fossil fuels?

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Anonymous #6 14w

I care about the climate enough to point fingers at the billionaires. Not me using ChatGPT as a tool to help better understand me, my thoughts, and my feelings in ways I wish a therapist could. My original comment was trying to say that I will stop using ChatGPT, because I understand the issue, when I find a resource that can give me the same support. But ChatGPT is not the only issue concerning climate change.

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Anonymous #6 14w

Do you think water just stops existing after it is used for cooling or something?

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Anonymous #4 14w

chatgpt and other generative ai is absolutely a problem. a lot of progress towards renewable energy has been set back and places have reverted to fossil fuel use to power AI data centers. by no means are you the worst offender of using ai, but you aren’t the only one using ai. little things add up

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Anonymous #14 14w

it’s not the same. groundwater takes years to replenish. if it comes from surface water, the water is heated significantly and aquatic life cannot survive even the differences in temperature.

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Anonymous #6 14w

Yes, I fully understand that. But for me, I don’t really have many people in my circle. I might rely on ChatGPT a bit too much when it comes to my OCD and random compulsive thoughts that take me down a rabbit hole and ChatGPT scratches that itch. I would love to see some type of protest or something so that maybe they could start making it more safe for the environment because I know how much water it uses. But Idk. It’s a tough spot for me.

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Anonymous #6 14w

i dont even support ai but this is the most braindead take ive heard in quite some time. ai is literally getting more funding into renewable energy to keep up with the requirements. also the data centers for ai hold more than just ai lmao so unless you want basic internet functions to stop working then you need to keep giving energy to data centers

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Anonymous #4 14w

ai doesnt use any water and im not sure who started spreading that idea. water is used for closed loop cooling where it is continuously recycled within the same facility

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Anonymous #14 14w

MIT and microsoft full of brain dead folks i guess

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Anonymous #6 14w

i forgot that the average person just reads things and runs with them, my bad. the reason why their emissions have gone up is due to fossil fuels being the most efficient energy source at this time besides nuclear. if people stopped holding outdated beliefs though we could just use nuclear and have drastically fewer emissions. the thing that article fails to mention is that due to the need for all this energy companies have invested heavily into renewable energy since fossil fuels are...

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Anonymous #14 14w

extremely inefficient and environmentally costly. solar power, nuclear, and fusion have all made great progress in recent times and fusion in particular has received massive amounts of funding. if you look purely at the current energy sources then yes its from fossil fuels but you cant tunnel vision on a single thing since you need to take in the whole picture. please look further into these sorts of things before you spread more misinformation to people online and make the situation worse

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Anonymous OP 14w

are you 40 or something?

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Anonymous #14 14w

27. Why does it matter??

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Anonymous OP 14w

because you post memes that a facebook mom would post

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Anonymous #4 14w

Why are you using it for philosophical debates? It’s a LLM that literally learns how to respond to please you. You will get nowhere with it, try it with another person instead.

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Anonymous #23 14w

I mean, it’s provoked a lot of thought from me and actually giving me pretty decent responses, with other metaphysical arguments from other philosophers that I haven’t learned about. I have gone and checked and everything, and so far nothing has been unhelpful or unproductive. But it’s always unhelpful or unproductive and we always hit a wall when I talk about it with another person because I have such a limited knowledge or passion about the subject.

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Anonymous #4 14w

They have such limited knowledge**

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Anonymous #14 14w

Can you cite some sources for those claims? Because Trump is slashing renewable energy left and right. That’s outright false unless you’ve got proof otherwise.

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Anonymous #23 14w

it literally takes a simple google search but here you go. hopefully you guys stop falling for propaganda. https://web.archive.org/web/20241211150418/https://www.renewableinstitute.org/google-launches-20-billion-renewable-energy-initiative-to-fuel-ai-advancements/ heres one directly from the government talking about using ai for setting up renewable energy as well. https://www.energy.gov/policy/articles/how-ai-can-help-clean-energy-meet-growing-electricity-demand

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Anonymous #14 14w

if you want more i can provide some but again you can just type in "ai renewable energy funding" into google and find thousands of results

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oh also some ai companies have been using nuclear reactors which are arguably the cleanest energy source available now when factoring in efficiency vs emissions. https://futurism.com/google-nuclear-power-centers

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Anonymous #14 14w

btw just bc an energy source is cleaner doesn’t make it clean. the best option is never to JUST switch energy sources, it’s to reduce consumption. it’s true that nuclear power is relatively clean compared to other energy sources, but it doesn’t change that the process of mining uranium for the reactors and nuclear power still requires water to cool the reactors, which is then released back into the environment at a high temperature

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Anonymous #6 14w

also added a screenshot from an article about an AI data center near memphis

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Anonymous #6 14w

if you factor in environmental effects from production like you mentioned then nuclear is cleaner than any other source of energy lol. there is no such thing as truly clean energy to begin with and renewable energy is actually worse for the environment. the only real issue with nuclear is the storage of spent fuel since there is so much fear mongering surrounding it so we dont recycle the fuel rods

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Anonymous #14 14w

you can all debate nuclear energy & energy sources all you want. either way, structural change > individual sacrifice shaming people for using ai goes viral cuz it’s a trendy source of guilt. even when the real climate burden is still industrial, systemic, & driven by consumption. ppl tend to quote these specific chatgbt stats, missing the forest for the trees easier to say “let’s boycott ai use” than to say “invest efficient data centers to reduce large scale energy hogs in the future”

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Anonymous #19 14w

structural change is impossible without individual sacrifice. you want to blame companies for emissions but are not willing to stop buying from those companies.

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Anonymous #6 14w

agreed. individual action is most powerful when it fuels collective momentum & policy shifts, not when it’s used to guilt people

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Anonymous #19 14w

also data centers hold the entire internet not just ai. even if people boycotted ai the data centers would still grow as more and more information is uploaded online. the best solution we currently have is investing in fusion energy since it is the least environmentally taxing form of energy and would make energy a nonissue. solar still has a long way to go but that will likely be the best in the future

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