
I have a nuanced take on therapy. We're over therpaized as a society. And our mental health is being manipulated by our food and water supply basically being pharmaceuticals and our media bombarding us with negativity and false depictions of what life is. No problem with it existing or even going. But traditionally therapy had an end date. These days it's treated as a subscription service.
On the AI water arguments, you guys realize that the water isn’t WASTED right? Same thing with chip fabs they take nuts amounts of water but recycle 90% of it such that it becomes relatively small usage. The numbers they use to shoot at how bad AI facilities are is are mostly from max flow rates and disregards recycling. No waste products are being introduced into the water unless you wanna consider heat going into the pipes and some metals getting dissolved in.
the amount of energy and water its using, and co2 its immiting is destroying the environment at a rapid rate. they put the server centers in small rural areas & older folks are developing COPD alarmingly all while being asked to use less power in their homes. its horrifying and dystopian.
With taking all of this into account do you know how much water an energy it takes to make the phone YOU are using right now, let along the energy and the co2 being produced by the same car YOU drive and choose to use on a Daily basis even before ai was as popular as it is today, not to mention the WiFi or cellular data needed to use the phone your responding on
yeah, the amount of energy i use altogether is like a fraction of a breath compared to an ai data center. we will not grow old or have clean, affordable drinking water later in life. you are being wilfully ignorant to the information that is at your fingertips because you "like" AI, you can just say that.
Do you have a source of that information? I’d love to take a look, but the point I’m trying to make isn’t that both done cause harm, it’s the fact your singling out the harm from ai usage whe the damage already done by cars, phones, and other technologies have already been causing this harm, and no body really cares until ai came into the picture. And ppl still all over even my own town, they’re houses are getting sold without there consent to make way to production lines or grocery stores,
Now you wanna talk about pollution? Ever heard of the gpgp? (Great passific garbage patch, 617,764 square miles of trash floating in the ocean,(that’s more than twice the size of the state of tx btw))See now THAT is bad and that’s litterslt jusr from us and our TRASH, but all anyone wants to talk abt is “oh ai is so bad” if you have a big program with pollution 😭 stop putting using your phones sm or just throwing them out when a new one comes out
Have a friend that has become so enveloped with ChatGPT they use it to justify all their increasingly bad behaviors, and with every person they match with on tinder, and to pick what to eat, where to go on a hike, where to buy property, what to invest in (we lost money last year I’m not listening to his ass anymore).
No you’re just significantly less efficient than people who are using AI depending on the task. I don’t know everything yet as a new grad but the way it is with AI I’m better off filling in the blanks with AI so I can get deliverables done faster. If I don’t then I’m the only one not increasing my speed while everyone else is and I’ll be left behind
oh yeah all the benefits like how illiteracy rates are skyrocketing because “the computer can just read and write for me”. Also you saying “it’s all fine” is so untrue, even phones pollute! But AI is polluting and using water at an even greater, unprecedented rate. Phones and nuclear power are not even comparable to AI data centers. Obviously we need to address all things contributing to pollution and climate change but acting like AI isn’t an extremely significant factor in that is insane.
also I’d like to point out that not everybody “throws out” their phones when a new one comes out like you said. I had an iphone 6 for nine years before I had to upgrade due to software issues. Obviously the trash is bad and nobody is saying it isn’t! The fact is though that we can admit both AI and trash pollution are bad and you can’t.
But it IS a big deal!!! That’s the part you’re not getting. How is unprecedented rates of water usage not a big deal? And according to your argument, shouldn’t any amount of pollution be a big deal? Since you keep getting upset that we’re not talking about every single other issue as well? It’s all a big deal jfc it’s like talking to a brick wall 😭
Woah okay first off there is no need to misssgender me like that, and also there’s no reason to cuss 😭 litterslt that’s so immature of you let’s just TRY to keep it oh yeah? And also ai pollution litterslt isn’t even comparable to regular pollution, ai’s is a fraction compared to the rest which makes it not a concern
lmfao ive been watching this comment thread all day 😭😭😭 but yeah.... AI IS A BIG DEAL. it is disrupting the very foundation of the economy, society, and even how we even speak and how our minds work. be in denial all u want buddy. its all fun and games until all of our jobs are gone, the environment is fucked beyond repair, and everything we consume had no human spirit. lock in
when did I even gender you in the first place? 😭 maybe they aren’t at the same level yet, but at the rate that AI is polluting and using water it WILL be at the same level or more in a very, very short time. I hope you’re prepared to have no drinking water in the very near future.
please do a tiny bit of research I’m begging you. AI accounts for much less than 1% of our power consumption and freshwater usage. computation is one of the only parts of our current society that is sustainable. the way we eat and commute need to be radically restructured if we want our species to survive, the way we compute does not. when you push the “but muh AI water” bullshit you are distracting from actual environmental issues, and big oil is grateful for your doing so