@FossThought

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Don’t call it age verification. Call it centralised personal data collection. And understand that it serves surveillance, not safety for children.

COME ON, overthrow the whole damn thing, dont wait.

LOOK.

"Power Prices in Eastern U.S. Spike 76% Thanks to AI Data Centers"

Theyre building bots to take your jobs, your money, your water, your country.

https://gizmodo.com/power-prices-in-eastern-u-s-spike-76-thanks-to-ai-data-centers-2000759230

Power Prices in Eastern U.S. Spike 76% Thanks to AI Data Centers

A new report calls the impact significant and "irreversible."

Gizmodo
"We need to capture all of your info so we can make a better user experience. We need to know what features you're using, which ones you like, etc..."
Ok... How about a good old fashioned survey or questionnaire?
Think about all the cool shit we’d have if we weren’t ruled by such miserable dorks

"But you can't deny that it's useful" is what I hear often when I criticize "AI". But that's not the argument because everything is useful to someone for some purpose usually at someone's cost. "Child labor" is _useful_.

Question is: Do the uses bring more social value than the cost?

“If you go back a million minutes, you reach 2023.
Go back a billion minutes you reach the Roman Empire - that’s the scale of inequality we’re living with” Zack Polanski

#inequality #taxtherich #billionaires #australia

We are dealing with multi-billionaires

Every “I’ll just ask ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini”, every LLM-generated summary, is driving data centres on a mission to

“be bigger than 2,000 Walmarts, dump ‘23 atom bombs worth of energy’ into the environment every day, and terrify locals”

https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/this-ai-data-center-will-be-bigger-than-2-000-walmarts-and-dump-23-atom-bombs-worth-of-energy-into-the-environment-every-day-and-locals-are-terrified

This AI data center will be bigger than 2,000 Walmarts and dump '23 atom bombs worth of energy' into the environment every day — and locals are terrified

This project could physically alter the landscape for humans and wildlife

Tom's Guide

People don’t turn to chatbots for therapy because chatbots are good at therapy.

They do it for the same reason that people who are starving try to eat tree bark.

@jik

Remember the old saying? "Good, fast, cheap: pick one if you're lucky; pick two if you're good." It's not good, and it's not really all that cheap: cycles are spinning up in price, and that's going to keep going up because of market capture.

So, fast. Fast now, because nobody's concerned about tomorrow. If it works for the moment, that's good enough, and anything longer than a quarter is a lifetime away.

And we're going to look back and find out that it's really not been that fast after all.

@jik They’re not even faster at coding – they’re faster at cobbling together a copy-pasted solution based on billions of lines of software previously written by people.