ellie (slut arc) 🖤 
whoever the fuck decided that ecosia should have an llm generating answers to search queries should be shoved down the stairs and break something
the introduction of so-called "AI" into products whose users obviously and definitely Do Not Want It, such as ecosia or at mozilla, exemplifies the sheer soullessness of the nonprofit industrial complex. evidently the people making decisions at ecosia don't actually care about the environment, or being sustainable, or planting trees (which tbh is a very simplistic solution to a complex problem to begin with). No, to them ecosia is just a step on their career path like any other, and they're clearly more focused on being able to write "spearheaded introduction of AI at [company]" in their resume than they are on making good decisions that actually further the goals the nonprofit is ostensibly for.
Helen LH@roadblock161_ I wrote a formal complaint about it to them and they responded by saying their AI is greener than the other ones and they have no plans in switching it off. So I told them I would change to a different provider that doesn't use ethically dodgy, environmentally destructive AI technology.
Luzzy is bunnygirl@Research_FTW @roadblock161_ "green AI"
omfg
that's worse than calling natural gas... well.. natural.
Having a "low-power" machine wasting electricity might sound better than having a power hungry one but it doesn't answer the question of: Why do we need something wasting power?
omfg
that's worse than calling natural gas... well.. natural.
Having a "low-power" machine wasting electricity might sound better than having a power hungry one but it doesn't answer the question of: Why do we need something wasting power?
David Cantrell 🏏@meluzzy @Research_FTW @roadblock161_ natural gas is so-called in comparison to "coal gas", which was produced using coal and a lot of energy. Natural gas is a *lot* cleaner.