I want to let people know why I’m strictly against using AI in everything I do without sounding like an ‘AI vegan’, especially in front of those who are genuinely ready to listen and follow the same.

Any sources I try to find to cite regarding my viewpoint are either mild enough to be considered AI generated themselves or filled with extremist views of the author. I want to explain the situation in an objective manner that is simple to understand and also alarming enough for them to take action.

  • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca
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    3 hours ago

    Depending on how hardcore you are about it, you can’t.

    Are you getting up in people’s face to tell them not to use it, or are you answering why you choose not to use it?
    Are you extremely strict in your adherence? Or are you more forgiving based on the application or user?

    There are two general points I like to make:

    1. Big companies are using it to steal the work of the powerless, en masse. It is making copyright strictly the tool of the powerful to use against the powerless.
    2. If these companies aren’t lying and will actually deliver what they say they’re going to deliver in the timeline they stated, then it’s going to cause mass unemployment, because even if (IF) this creates new jobs for every job it destroys, the market can’t move fast enough to invent these new careers in the timeline described. So either they’re lying or they’re going to cause great suffering, and a massive increase in wealth inequality.

    Energy usage honestly never seems to be a concern for people, so I don’t even try to make that argument.

    • AA5B@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 hours ago

      While I understand new data enters for ai are increasing power usage, it’s just highlighting the existing problems where there are decades of insufficient investment in infrastructure.

      You can’t get enough power to run a new data center? Where were you when I complained we needed additional transmission lines to keep bringing more renewable energy online? Where were you when I wanted the huge infrastructure project to import huge amounts of Canadian hydro? I bet you wish you had that now.

      • Frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        2 hours ago

        Where were you when I complained we needed additional transmission lines to keep bringing more renewable energy online?

        I’ve strongly argued for this in the past.

        All these tech bros with AI datacenters are putting their spare couch change together to build HVDC lines across the continent, right?