@cstross @EUCommission @0xtero

The costs and farms are stupendously overblown and conflated.
There is bad faith on both sides of the argument

The WAAAAH DATACENTRES mob conveniently ignores the current data centres ~50% of which are iclouds, AWS, dropbox, office365 and yes, mastodon, same issues, but oh these are the "good" data centres 🙄

Also while growth projection are nasty...model distilation and algo improvement MAY reduce the load significantly. Tech improves. Have you tested the water pressure tank on your steam car?
Its a safety issue.

Placing AI Data centres in orbit removes the heat, carbon and energy issue, but forest folk aren't happy about that either (Not a big fan of that either but for different reasons than you)
There is a small test inference engine up there already since December BTW.

Copyright and artist exploitation?
Oh yes, did you delete you pirated MP3 and MP4s? 🙄 Same folks who 4 years ago were chanting "Information wants to be free" are now guardians of corporate copyright.

So, yeah.
Ai is useful, x10 is real if you actually git gud.
#aislop #ai #llm #luddites #neoluddites

@GhostOnTheHalfShell

Ooouf... I'm an not going to dismiss Gabriele because of their age... There are smart people of their age... but for a person who uses #science in their content... they need to try harder.

They conflate a few things together in their #Aibad cauldron and stir with a ladel of emotion.

They conflate bots (not all #AI) with psychology (AI adjecent) and a couple of opinion pieces pushed as "Science"

Of course we lead with Kosmyna!

Kosmyna - The headline finding rests on six people's brainwaves.

Lee et al. - People self-reporting how much they thought is like asking dieters how much they ate.

Wan et al. - The authors say don't trust their own labels.

Nosta - A blog post having an existential crisis in a lab coat.

And thats in the 'further reading' description, lets hope they meant 'sources' because otherwise it looks like an emo blog source.

Lets hope that video doesnt get much more than the 12K it already has, its not doing the neo-luddites much good in the credibility stakes.

#AISlop #NeoLuddites