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when you ask 85% of people on here why they hate AI or LLMs, they'll give you thought-terminating cliches or factually incorrect information it's a damn shame, because it weakens their positions when the correct and reasoned 15% is MORE THAN ENOUGH to tear the entire industry down

The "slurping up lakes" thing is irritating because it is an incredible watering down so to speak of the actual problems with data centers and water consumption, and a lot of it has to do with the sudden explosion of scale and the strain it puts on municipalities, so yet again capitalism.

I could probably ramble for 20-30 minutes but one of the short but immediate and easy to explain factors is that when any large facility suddenly starts taking a huge amounts of water, a lot of muncipal things on both the supply and wastewater side end up under stresses they weren't designed for

even with the state of models today, they could do wild things if the primary reason they're being pushed by the sociopaths in charge wasn't "slash labor cost, destroy worker power, and replace people in automatable creative positions wherever possible" and if they were efficient.

they aren't power-efficient. just that disqualifies them from being something that's ethical to develop at the scale capitalism demands when we are deep in a climate emergency

like, christ, look at it: we're doing large-scale enough analysis on text to create an assemblage of reverse-engineered mathematics that behaves in ways complex enough to *solve arbitrary problems.* that's fucking WIZARDRY. and what's it being used for? evil, of course. we live under capitalism