Katerina MarchánRE: https://hachyderm.io/@petrillic/116337502667369228
I can’t have a conversation with any genAI boosters that is remotely productive precisely because of this.
it's B! Cavello 🐝@zkat Genuine Q if you have the spoons for it: how do you navigate feelings about genAI vs other also ethically concerning technologies (like cars, perhaps)?
I personally feel like I have a sort of status quo bias re: things that already existed and were problematic when I came into the world, but see more recent developments as more avoidable or exceptional, even tho maybe they’re not actually that different.
I personally feel like I have a sort of status quo bias re: things that already existed and were problematic when I came into the world, but see more recent developments as more avoidable or exceptional, even tho maybe they’re not actually that different.
Karl Heinz Häsliprinz@b_cavello @zkat Burning fossil fuels for energy is a far, far, far worse tech than genAI could possibly ever be. Tbh. if it wasn't for the burning fossil fuel parts, genAI is just some computer shit that one could easily ignore.
@KarlHeinzHasliP there are more environmental and societal harms from this tech than just the burning of fossil fuels
@zkat well, yes, but they won't cause several billion people to die of hunger, heatwaves and flooding. Burning fossil fuels is really really really bad - far worse than all computer technology combined, including genAI.
@KarlHeinzHasliP there was literally a study that just came out where the microclimates created by the heat from data centers can affect 320mil people so far, and hyperscalers are propagating rapidly
@zkat @KarlHeinzHasliP I was also surprised by that, tho I’ve also seen some critical reads of that research, and it seems like it would be helpful to have a more robust control group so we can know what the particular increases due to data centers are
https://blog.andymasley.com/p/data-centers-heat-exhaust-is-not
https://blog.andymasley.com/p/data-centers-heat-exhaust-is-not
