
i feel like we as a society have to come to terms with the fact ai is not going anywhere but we should yell and demand change from the companies for better ways of it without it harming our environment. i personally love using it for understanding things like math cause it can help me little by little understand and in my own pace without someone hounding at me or not understanding my problems. we have to learn to use it for the better and with better environmental solutions
Corporations do have impact but it’s also individual people using ChatGPT generating 1000s if not millions of prompts per day fueling it. You even said “99%” of people are using AI, even as a hyperbole, how can you think such a large scale of people use it and yet it has no impact? This whole post is just trying to justify and cope w/ your own guilt. “It’s ok because everyone does it but also even though everyone use it we actually have no impact because it’s all corporations fault!”
It’s also recently started to come out that a lot of the “massive data centers” could actually be significantly smaller and still cover the amount of ai usage by the population. The government is sub-contracting out a majority of the space in them so even if (just hypothetical numbers here) open ai has a 3000 acre data center only 300 acres are actually housing open ai data servers the other 2700 are being utilized by the gov. But all the water and resource waste is being placed on us via ai
No one is saying you can’t pass classes and get work done without ai. However, as someone that did 3 years of college with out and 1 with the availability of chat gpt. Professors became less inclined to actually help students once they found out there was a way for students to get answers without bothering them.
With all due respect do you go to the university of unicorns and rainbows? I could report that I saw a tenured professor conducting a human sacrifice and would get told that what faculty does during their free time is not the school’s business or mine. Nobody’s forcing anyone to use ai but most people are not privileged enough to risk failing a class or losing a scholarship on the principle of not using ai.
Nah my school actually sucks pretty bad. But if you make enough of a stink about AI people listen and stop shoving it down your throat. My GPA is low because I don’t have enough time to complete all my assignments but I’d rather that happen than go as low as using AI for my homework
I said my actual numbers were just hypothetical but a quick google search will show how the government uses the private sector to build their own personal ai and data servers and contracts out preexisting ones. There’s been a lot of speculation that the government is behind just as much of the large jump in data center construction as the private companies.
Using it for the better means not using it at all, unless you’re involved in research organizations and are using AI for those specific and highly optimized applications.. I’m not sure what kinds of environmental solutions you think are going to happen but we’re relying on fossil fuels and freshwater for AI and that’s definitely not going to be changing under the current administration
I’m not trying to be rude but I don’t think a lot of people who keep defending AI really understand what it takes to power data centers, along with that there’s the social and intellectual deterioration that’s been proven to happen with long term AI use. There would have to be MAJOR changes to environmental policies and the way American society is structured in order to make AI even slightly sustainable
And it’s pretty much just held up by investors who are growing tired of not getting the returns they thought they would. And it’s lead to numerous suicides, mis/disinformation, is fucking up people’s water supplies, the list goes on. It’s being shoved into everything where it isn’t wanted.
I would argue that saying that less than 50% of people that are in the workforce or in college use ai is even more extraordinary. Maybe less than 50% of all people world wide including those with limited internet access and the elderly but the non-retired us population, absolutely not.
At any rate, the “intelligence” of AI, isn’t in the LLM. It’s just a reflection of our Intelligence, spread out over statistical averages. Spend any length of time talking to it about a subject you’re already familiar with and you’ll find it’s no better than talking with an idiot.
Tell that to the people (predominantly black communities) facing water scarcity and poor air quality due to these data centers. You think they’re gonna be like “oh now that I know the data centers are smaller than I thought I can breathe well again and all my water is back!”. The size doesn’t matter when the impact is the same
They don’t even care. One of the lowest of the low types of people imo. Don’t think of the environmental effects, the economic effects, the negative impacts on people’s quality of life/health, none of it. As long as they can spare the hour it’d take them to do an assignment by using ChatGPT and instead use that time to scroll tiktok laughing at more disgusting AI generated content. It’s heinous
i’m not endorsing ai but yeah the last sentence is true. many people do not have the time or mental bandwidth to do everything without help. it’s a privilege to be able to take the moral high ground on some things. i don’t support using it for everything but you don’t know everyone’s situation