CassandrichMar 16

Saw some article about "quitting LLMs for climate" and.. uhg. Can we please drop the "personal responsibility" bs? Your choice, as an individual, to use or not use this shit has no effect on the climate.

Where your individual use of LLMs *does* have harm is rotting your brain, destroying your credibility, exposing you and your contacts' private conversations and photos to parties who wish us harm, wasting your peers' time, exposing people who use the things you made to legal risk, etm etm etm.

Edit: To be clear, I'm perfectly happy with people refraining from using LLMs for whatever reason works for them! This post was more about media/mass-communication narratives and how they risk implying that there's value in "AI" and that refraining from using it is a sacrifice rather than being self-care and community care.

Show threadmirabilosMar 16
@dalias it is shit for all these reasons and the ecological reasons and everyone must abstain from using "AI" also for ecological reasons.
Show threadCassandrichMar 16
@mirabilos What I'm saying is that a bunch of people individually abstaining for ecological reasons isn't going to solve the ecological problem. Me not talking to ChatGPT does nothing if every company providing services I need has replaced their customer support and operations staff with chatbots. We need to bring down the people at the top pushing "AI", regulate/tax/ban the "AI" data centers out of existence, etc. Not just try to convince the few people willing to make sacrifices for ecological reasons to stop rotting their own brains on 🐈💨
Show threadmirabilos

@dalias yes-ish, until the “bunch” gets large.

But for a personal reason, refusal to use planet-burning things is still a good thing (also relevant for… most religions, I’d wager).

Mar 16 at 8:12pmWeb