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It’s built on ‘slave’ labor, illegal use of content and additionally using unbelievable amounts of power so the environmental concerns go right out of the window at a time where we should do everything to not do that.

Also, AI, even if it’s the currently established term has absolutely nothing to do with neither intelligence nor sentience but is being sold as AGI (overpromised).

This has caused huge masses of investment to gather which will pop at some point, causing all of us massive issues due to the missteps of a few.

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Manjushri@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

…additionally using unbelievable amounts of power so the environmental concerns go right out of the window at a time where we should do everything to not do that.

Don’t forget that the enormous energy usage is driving up energy costs for absolutely everyone.

Residential retail electricity prices in September were up 7.4%, to about 18 cents per kilowatt hour, according to the most recent data from the Energy Information Administration.

That’s on a national basis too. If you happen to live in an area with a lot of data centers, your energy costs have probably risen more than that.

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- Strider@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Absolutely. That is by all means not an exhaustive list. The shit pile is much higher than that and I regularly forget half of it.
  
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higgsboson@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Is copying an mp3 slavery as well?

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- Strider@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Nowhere regarding the mp3 code (afaik, of course) there are masses of low wage workers required for data tagging for it to work. So no.
  
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- the_mighty_kracken@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  They are talking about ‘Mechanical Turks’ who step in when the LLM falters who are paid slave wages.
  
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