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Environmental Baddies 6d
My school in Colorado just made a multi million dollar partnership with AI. this is the school im getting my environmental degree from. They’re making it mandatory to use…How am I supposed to not lose all hope?
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Anonymous 6d

That’s pretty sad. I’m not very knowledgeable on this sort of policy, how to they plan to make you use it? I’d want to boycott those parts of assignments, or literally do them myself, whatever the “AI “ is supposed to write. I also wonder if organizing a walk out is within reach, I really think there are a lot of students who do care about sticking it to these companies and our universities.

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Anonymous 6d

I know a few people in hard school for environmental degrees / conservation degrees being required to use it. It’s so disheartening.

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Anonymous 6d

It means you have to fight even harder.

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Anonymous 5d

What the hell?! What school?

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Anonymous 6d

How are they making it mandatory to use?

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Anonymous 6d

What school CSU?

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Anonymous 5d

what company?

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Anonymous 6d

Believe in reinvention- the heat produced from ai centers could power cities and heat shelters. We aren’t there yet but necessity drives change, and we will adapt.

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Anonymous 5d

Boycott protest make some noise. They’ll prolly pull it if enough of you look into going elsewhere and let them know why

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Anonymous 6d

I dont use AI except for coding and I absolutely hate its casual use in society but the cat is out of the bag, we can’t be conservatives about technological progress. We have to use our environmental degrees to minimize its environmental effects. I’m trying to market my degree towards rentable geothermal energy for data centers so we can pivot away from fossil fuels. (I also j need a job)

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 6d

I completely agree; It’s important that our voices are heard. As an art major, I feel for OP very much. I haven’t been outright forced to use AI, but it’s been pushed as a “tool” or “creative resource.” I believe it hurts artists more than it helps in the long run. In one of my art history classes, there was an “AI Literacy” assignment where we were asked to experiment with writing prompts to AI. I told my teacher I refused to use AI, and treated the assignment like a research documentation.

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 6d

She did allow me to do this, but I’m not sure what I would’ve done if she didn’t allow me to do the alternative assignment.

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 6d

Making it mandatory for assignments, and the use of it mandatory for grades. There is no way to dodge or work around, my major is like envs / business, they see us as absolutely needing to use it. The only way I have around it, is to look at certain prof syllabi and try to choose the profs that work around it. It’s so discouraging. The past three years I’ve been studying water and how businesses can manage the waste of that natural resource. My work now feels… pointless.

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 6d

Renewable*

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 6d

Making it mandatory is dumb af

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Anonymous replying to -> yakinaway 6d

how do we harness that heat? and what about the carbon dioxide emissions due to energy usage and the water being drained from local sources to cool data centers? just because maybe someday this could possibly be made sustainable does not mean it will undo the extensive environmental damage it’s doing in the mean time

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Anonymous replying to -> #9 6d

We*

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Anonymous replying to -> #9 6d

We have to throw as many monkey wrenches into the system as possible, no matter how small. Get together with like minded students and come up with ways to resist

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Anonymous replying to -> #8 5d

There are already cities that are doing it, so it is possible. It’s for people much more informed than I am to answer. And as our planet is ever changing I believe our world adapts and our creator is far too intelligent to not have a work-around.

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Anonymous replying to -> yakinaway 5d

lol god isn't real

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Anonymous replying to -> #13 5d

Neither are you

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