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shneancy@lemmy.world 6 days agothe physical places that house AI are destroying communities and environments
the AI is being trained on stolen works of artists, writers, and honestly everything that exists online
AI when it works damages critical thinking, and uses human psychology against us
yeah i’m not excited about AI either, i used to be. but seeing the reality of what’s going on just makes me sad about how - what could’ve been a wonderful tool, and potentially, one day, even a sapient companion to humanity - it’s being used
subverted_per@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 days ago
I think it’s also emblematic of how corrupt our system has become. We don’t have money or housing for the unhoused. We don’t have power for an all electric vehicle transport system. We must baby step every little inch of progress and fight tooth an nail as services are cut out from under us.
Yet these data centers spring up out of nowhere taking our water before we can drink it, and consuming power that our communities already paid for. Our representatives sell our services to take care of them because corruption is just lobbying. They dump pollution and excess heat into our communities during a climate catastrophe.
And it’s all for a technology that has a rather small use case where it works well, but is being crammed into everything whether it needs it or not making perfectly good tech into barely functional crap. All so that like ten white dudes can hoard more wealth, and control more and more aspects of all of our lives.