Mastodawn

Niléane May 17, 2024

I feel the same way about AI that I did about crypto when it started becoming a thing:

• All of the moral practices that make it possible are fucked beyond repair.

• It’s spawning some of the worst companies, and enriching some of the worst billionaires in the world.

• While there are some genuinely useful, practical applications for it, there are so few of them, and they have had so little positive impact so far, that it doesn’t even seem like it’s going to be worth it anytime soon.

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oldguycrusty

@nileane

And they both rely on enormous computing resources and consume vast amounts of electric power.

And just like the fossil fuel industries, they enrich a tiny few super rich (2%), while externalizing the true costs to the other 98% - hitting the poorest and most vulnerable the hardest.