KaleidotropeI continue to be shocked by magazines and writers that continue to use generative AI. Even if you think it looks good (it doesn’t), or you’ve convinced yourself it’s ethical and non-exploitative (it isn’t), the environmental cost is so ridiculously high it should be a non-starter.
Whiskers The Great and Terrible@kaleidotrope the genie is well and truly out of the bottle with AI. You will lose your job to someone who is willing and able to use AI long before you lose your job to AI itself (for most people).
Darrin West@kaleidotrope @phil This view is short sighted. The causal use of this technology is not sustainable and doesn’t appear to be in the future (without a radical change in the way the matrices are computed). Its widespread use is subsidized by venture capital. When their patience runs out and users are expected to cover the power bill and a profit, its use will plummet. Then what? It will retain only a small fraction of its current market, or might even die.
@obviousdwest @kaleidotrope I’m struggling to think of another example where this has happened?
@kaleidotrope @phil Ad driven news media. Crypto (especially NFTs). Internal combustion engines (heh). Sub prime mortgages. Cold fusion. AR/VR headsets. (I don’t have a prepared, irrefutable list; this was from 5 minutes of brainstorming) Tamagotchis, Teslas, Beanie Babies. Your struggle comes because we forget the level of hype we experienced from the losers.
@kaleidotrope @obviousdwest crypto is still alive and well (except for NFTs which had no business value). Cold fusion never hit mainstream adoption (unlike GenAI), same with AR/VR. Tamagotchis, Teslas, and Beanie Babies are just irrelevant comparisons.
Sub prime mortgages are a good call out, but I’m not sure that AI carries that level of risk for businesses though?
Sub prime mortgages are a good call out, but I’m not sure that AI carries that level of risk for businesses though?