og_beer
I’ve realized I don’t dislike ai. I dislike how stupid people are regarding ai. How little they understand and how trustworthy they are to the corporations in charge of the ai machines they use. Esp ChatGPT/openaiYou’re correct about how people engage with AI but also like. AI is bad for other reasons too. It’s an extreme detriment to the environment, sucking up immense amounts of energy to power all those servers, and companies frequently use heavily exploited workers from the global south to support and their products. https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/qa-uncovering-the-labor-exploitation-that-powers-ai.php https://news.mit.edu/2025/explained-generative-ai-environmental-impact-0117
Yeah but it’s fairly minimal in the grand scheme of energy consumers that destroy the environment. It’s worse than a google search, so we should use google vs ask chatgpt, but all data centers in the world (ai and non) only consume like 1.5% of the global energy a year. And that can easily be fixed in general if we adopted wide spread nuclear power grids to support our energy needs until we develop efficient renewable sources