BlameThePeacock
@BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca
- Comment on "I was forced to use AI until the day I was laid off." Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry 4 days ago:
That is correct.
- Comment on "I was forced to use AI until the day I was laid off." Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry 4 days ago:
Not if they’re the only employee left… still CEO.
- Comment on "I was forced to use AI until the day I was laid off." Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry 4 days ago:
With the right skills built out first, the CEO absolutely could be the person doing that.
- Comment on "I was forced to use AI until the day I was laid off." Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry 5 days ago:
You HAVE seen it write. You have definitely seen it write poorly. However, you’ve also seen it write at a level where you didn’t even notice it wasn’t human written.
Just because something CAN produce bad output does not mean it can only produce bad output.
I can produce excellent output. I am also fully capable of producing slop. I’m human btw.
- Comment on What is the easiest way to calculate the calories in this bread machine recipe? 1 week ago:
Because to do it manually you need to find the sources for each of those values, then put it all in a table, then do the complete math.
Checking involves clicking the source link(s), then doing a quick mental calculation to see if it’s approximately correct.
- Comment on All AI Data Centers Under Construction Could Emit as Much CO₂ as 24 Million Cars 1 week ago:
Except for Alberta, which totally tracks because it’s the Texas of Canada.
- Comment on All AI Data Centers Under Construction Could Emit as Much CO₂ as 24 Million Cars 1 week ago:
It’s not a disagreement when someone says something that is objectively and proveably false.
This is something that people need to figure out.
They said I was misleading, then they either just strait up either lied, or didn’t bother to confirm their assumption when trying to prove that. They were wrong.
You call me out for not being nice. What they did is not nice. Call them out for that.
- Comment on All AI Data Centers Under Construction Could Emit as Much CO₂ as 24 Million Cars 1 week ago:
Are you saying that states can’t regulate this? They absolutely can.
- Comment on All AI Data Centers Under Construction Could Emit as Much CO₂ as 24 Million Cars 1 week ago:
You say we like it’s everyone. It isn’t.
My province in Canada had the electricity provider cap how much gets allocated to new data centers per year at a sustainable number.
Regulation instead of outright bans are the correct path forward.
- Comment on What is the easiest way to calculate the calories in this bread machine recipe? 1 week ago:
Which is still less effort than doing it from scratch yourself.
I know you guys want to hate ai for everything, but it’s not as bad as you think it is.
- Comment on What is the easiest way to calculate the calories in this bread machine recipe? 1 week ago:
No they aren’t. I ran it through gemini and it gave me a perfect answer. I double checked it against public values for nutrition.
- Comment on What is the easiest way to calculate the calories in this bread machine recipe? 1 week ago:
Ask AI… That kind of task is pretty trivial for modern LLMs.
- Comment on All AI Data Centers Under Construction Could Emit as Much CO₂ as 24 Million Cars 1 week ago:
You’re wrong. The average yearly co2 output for a car is somewhere between 4-5 tons. Which lines up with the numbers in the article. So no, it’s not actively running vehicles.
I am a fan of AI, that’s correct. That doesn’t change the fact that every single one of you chucklefucks don’t seem to understand numbers, or the scale of things in the real world.
You go on and on about how bad they are for the environment, while continuing to eat meat and drive your cars around. Both of which consume resources in a scale that makes AI look like a rounding error. Until I start hearing people protesting and actually doing something about those, I’m going to assume that your anti-AI stances are bullshit and a cover for hiding your fear that they will take over your job.
If that’s the real reason, just say it, then I will agree with you. Then we can discuss how we need to change society to deal with that problem, rather than banning AI.
- Comment on All AI Data Centers Under Construction Could Emit as Much CO₂ as 24 Million Cars 1 week ago:
There are approximately 1.7 billion cars in the world right now.
That’s 1700 million for people who can’t do math.
- Comment on A touch of AI is all it takes to trigger backlash, as a promising new indie falls afoul of slop skeptics 1 week ago:
Context window not so much. He is pretty solid with the hallucinations though.
- Comment on A touch of AI is all it takes to trigger backlash, as a promising new indie falls afoul of slop skeptics 2 weeks ago:
Human use in jobs requires keeping a human alive, which is in and of itself terrible for the environment.
Some of them are really bad at it too, have you seen the work my 11 year old puts out? It’s garbage. He can’t even get 100% of his math questions correct, and don’t even get me started on how poor his spelling is. He’s had 11 years to get better and it still sucks. Do you know how many resources he’s consumed in that training period? What if he never gets good at it?
The entire argument AI being bad is based on an assumption that humans are somehow good. Objectively that is wrong. Only subjectively is there any argument for that.
- Comment on What's the origin of the many phrases that include a person's name? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve got a floppy disk attached to my desk. It has “Super important backup” written on it, and a magnet holding it to the desk frame.
I’m old.
- Comment on There's No Reason to Buy a New Phone Anymore 2 weeks ago:
The prices of new electronics have skyrocketed, the used market always follows so you’re right to be worried.
- Comment on How com the ad industry make so much money? 3 weeks ago:
Despite the hatred, advertising works most of the time.
If nobody knows about your product or service, you can’t make any money. Word of mouth doesn’t cut it beyond a local store.
- Comment on Top economist warns that the AI math doesn’t make sense: 'Profits are currently being funded by investors rather than earned from customers' 3 weeks ago:
That makes sense, you’re clearly not smart enough to know a second language so you can test it out.
- Comment on Top economist warns that the AI math doesn’t make sense: 'Profits are currently being funded by investors rather than earned from customers' 3 weeks ago:
Other than not blocking your entire phone line while you were on it, paying for hours per month of connectivity, having content take minutes to load, lacking in useful content, a thousand and one different logins with no safety systems attached, constant viruses, and no safe way to pay for things?
Nah, it was great.
- Comment on Top economist warns that the AI math doesn’t make sense: 'Profits are currently being funded by investors rather than earned from customers' 3 weeks ago:
Maybe you wouldn’t, but I would. You clearly don’t remember how bad the internet was when it first became available to the public.
- Comment on Top economist warns that the AI math doesn’t make sense: 'Profits are currently being funded by investors rather than earned from customers' 3 weeks ago:
Your emotions don’t override reality.
LLMs are excellent at translation as one significant beneficial use case.
- Comment on Would an LLM AI model trained wholly on consenting open source projects with a license requiring all derivative works be open source licensed still be problematic? 3 weeks ago:
Agreed, the concept of copyright itself is problematic. The flip on this one boggles me. People are constantly arguing that copyright is bad every time Disney or some company use it to make money. Now they’re arguing that copyright is good and LLMs should respect it.
- Comment on Top economist warns that the AI math doesn’t make sense: 'Profits are currently being funded by investors rather than earned from customers' 4 weeks ago:
The underlying technology isn’t unprofitable, inference alone isn’t unprofitable. It’s the research and development of better models that’s unprofitable and unsustainable.
That’s pretty much how almost every new development happens. EVs were the same, primarily funded by subsidies and now they’re cost competitive or better in many situations even without them. Cellphone networks… also heavily funded by investors and some took hits from how it all played out. The dotcom bubble. Even as far back as the Railroad boom in the UK.
- Comment on When do we riot? 4 weeks ago:
A billion people in the world are vegetarians, and yet 15% of the world’s energy is going to Meat production. They didn’t ask for meat production but there it is.
You also misunderstand what “push to exist” really boils down to. AI is being used by companies because it saves them money, people are buying the products from these companies. They could choose more expensive options that do not use AI, but they are not actually doing that.
By that same logic, people aren’t responsible for the transportation and energy use for any industry, but without customers those industries would not exist and therefore their energy use wouldn’t happen.
That’s why it’s individual responsibility that is causing this disaster, and people putting their head in the sand and blaming billionaires does not help that.
- Comment on When do we riot? 4 weeks ago:
It’s in my comment history. Feel free to pretend I didn’t do it, but it doesn’t change reality.
- Comment on When do we riot? 4 weeks ago:
Based on the last time I did the math a few months ago, and the projections of AI datacenter builds, they’re expected to reach maybe 0.5% of total global energy use by 2030. HALF OF A PERCENT.
I don’t know how even spreading that out matters at all. It’s simply not a concern we should be focusing on until we solve things like meat production (15% of global energy use), transportation (something like 20% of global use), and more efficiency on systems like home and building heating (another 20-25%).
- Comment on When do we riot? 4 weeks ago:
Go do the math on Datacenter energy use. How much of Global Energy use do they account for (include all datacenters even).
I’ve done that math. It’s fucking nothing at the scale of total human use. They are not the issue.
- Comment on When do we riot? 4 weeks ago:
Everyone can change if pushed hard enough. Would you just die if a natural disaster wiped out your entire city/state and you were forced to relocate elsewhere? No, you would not. So it’s clearly possible.