People need to understand that water usage, plastic pollution, Co2 generation and power usage are all different things and just saying “tHe EnViRoNmEnT” isn’t helpful. Some of these things matter more than others.
“It’s just the corner of the fireworks store that’s on fire, I don’t see what you’re concerned about”
AI power growth is projected to grow exponentially for a service a lot of people view as morally reprehensible and actively harmful
Spencer Weart identified the dangers of global warming in the 50s, we ignored the warnings and now people and entire species are dying. Excuse us for trying to prevent accelerating the problem
AI power growth is projected to grow exponentially for a service a lot of people view as morally reprehensible and actively harmful
And this is a lie altman is telling to get more money.
It’s not scaling. GPT-5 is making it more obvious, but the ML research community has known this for some time. Tech projected to take off (like bitnet and more sparse attention/inference schemes), on the other hand, will lower power usage enough for phone inference and such.
So is AI useless and just a bubble that will pop, or will it explode exponentially?
It can’t be both.
When talking about the environment people say it will explode and burn the planet, but in the same breath they will say it’s useless and just a bubble
Oh sweetie. This your first bubble?
it will grow exponentially until it pops and then will progress normally in a way that is actually useful. that is what the term “bubble” means in this context.
It can be both. It can grow exponentially until it pops.
I never said useless. Mustard Gas is really useful, State Sponsored propaganda is useful. Usefulness does not equate to goodness as much as capitalist will try to convince you otherwise
Is this all for your AI girlfriend?
I’m down with the anti-beef and anti-Bitcoin sentiment, I can even get into the anti-travel argument (we need high speed rail) but saying AI is less harmful than those? Please.
obvious troll is obvious
Is Sam paying you enough to embarrass yourself like this?
Traveling
I don’t think my legs are gonna cause that much soil erosion… 🤔
Reproducing is the most substantial drain to the environment, and people with AI girl/boyfriends tend to excel at avoiding that.
This is true, but i think any obe of them woukd fuck us.
humans and their economy are the biggest threat
We should stop watching 4k videos, it’s killing the environment, it’s worse than AI
Lol how is this a fair comparison? 10 mins of watching 4k vs 1 AI question does not seem equivalent at all. Like you could change the quantities and make the comparison look as bad as you want. Why not compare 1 min of 4k video vs asking AI 1,000 questions? Why not compare 1 hr of 4k video to 10 AI questions? When you’re changing the variables around between comparisons like that then the comparison is worthless.
Besides that, the environmentally damaging part of AI isn’t asking it questions, it’s training the models themselves. Training AI uses huge resource consuming supercomputers and can take days.
I searched for how much data 4k streaming used and my browser gave me an AI-generated answer! Now I feel bad.
AIBros have to come up with anything to downplay how awful their waifu is.
Is training the Model and constantly scrubbing the Net included in that chart? I doubt it is.
Why would gps nav require data centers?
Also this is just water consumption not co2e emission
Source: Nazi bar
I’m actually interested to read about this but I’m not going there to do it. Got anything better?
Why are they nazi bar?
Genuinely curious IDK much about them
They platform and profit from Nazis:
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/substacks-nazi-problem-wont-go-away-after-push-notification-apology/
how about watching youtube at 1080p?
Probably still worse than a couple of AI prompts
