▲ 448 ▼ AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast (arstechnica.com) submitted 9 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world 162 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 82 points 9 months ago (9 children) Great use of RAM and electricity. ...Not! permalink fedilink source hideshow 9 child comments replies: [–] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social -2 points 9 months ago (4 children) Devil's Advocate: This was used for entertainment, if you think this is a huge waste of electricity then so is gaming en especially flying. If you criticize people using AI for entertainment then you also need to criticize people who take flights on holiday, as that's a LOT more damaging for the environment. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] athatet@lemmy.zip 2 points 9 months ago (1 child) Nah. I can be mad at both. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 0 points 9 months ago If you're mad at both, great. But I see a lot of hypocrisy. People getting angry at others using AI because of the environment, but then taking flights on holiday when they could take a train. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com 1 point 9 months ago It's like back then when crypto was a thing. People will studiously ignore that data centers are a drop in the ocean of energy consumption compared to the value they produce, and that even futile uses are not that significant in the grand scheme of things. permalink fedilink source parent [–] GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 0 points 9 months ago This looks more to me like leaving the lights on in every unoccupied room in the house permalink fedilink source parent [+] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social -37 points 9 months ago (3 children) How so? It's used entertainment. Just like playing games permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] flowers_galore2@lemmynsfw.com 36 points 9 months ago Resource abuse is far, far worse than your games. There’s a reason no one wants to disclose it. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Etterra@discuss.online 4 points 9 months ago The amount of data used by your PC to run any game is dwarfed by orders of magnitude by the energy consumption of the data centers needed to run these AI abominations. That's why China's version that uses less energy (supposedly) was such big news. permalink fedilink source parent [–] mad_djinn@lemmy.world 1 point 9 months ago anything goes as long as it makes SOMEONE happy. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social -2 points 9 months ago (4 children) Devil's Advocate: This was used for entertainment, if you think this is a huge waste of electricity then so is gaming en especially flying. If you criticize people using AI for entertainment then you also need to criticize people who take flights on holiday, as that's a LOT more damaging for the environment. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] athatet@lemmy.zip 2 points 9 months ago (1 child) Nah. I can be mad at both. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 0 points 9 months ago If you're mad at both, great. But I see a lot of hypocrisy. People getting angry at others using AI because of the environment, but then taking flights on holiday when they could take a train. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com 1 point 9 months ago It's like back then when crypto was a thing. People will studiously ignore that data centers are a drop in the ocean of energy consumption compared to the value they produce, and that even futile uses are not that significant in the grand scheme of things. permalink fedilink source parent [–] GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 0 points 9 months ago This looks more to me like leaving the lights on in every unoccupied room in the house permalink fedilink source parent
[–] athatet@lemmy.zip 2 points 9 months ago (1 child) Nah. I can be mad at both. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 0 points 9 months ago If you're mad at both, great. But I see a lot of hypocrisy. People getting angry at others using AI because of the environment, but then taking flights on holiday when they could take a train. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 0 points 9 months ago If you're mad at both, great. But I see a lot of hypocrisy. People getting angry at others using AI because of the environment, but then taking flights on holiday when they could take a train. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com 1 point 9 months ago It's like back then when crypto was a thing. People will studiously ignore that data centers are a drop in the ocean of energy consumption compared to the value they produce, and that even futile uses are not that significant in the grand scheme of things. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 0 points 9 months ago This looks more to me like leaving the lights on in every unoccupied room in the house permalink fedilink source parent
[+] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social -37 points 9 months ago (3 children) How so? It's used entertainment. Just like playing games permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] flowers_galore2@lemmynsfw.com 36 points 9 months ago Resource abuse is far, far worse than your games. There’s a reason no one wants to disclose it. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Etterra@discuss.online 4 points 9 months ago The amount of data used by your PC to run any game is dwarfed by orders of magnitude by the energy consumption of the data centers needed to run these AI abominations. That's why China's version that uses less energy (supposedly) was such big news. permalink fedilink source parent [–] mad_djinn@lemmy.world 1 point 9 months ago anything goes as long as it makes SOMEONE happy. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] flowers_galore2@lemmynsfw.com 36 points 9 months ago Resource abuse is far, far worse than your games. There’s a reason no one wants to disclose it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Etterra@discuss.online 4 points 9 months ago The amount of data used by your PC to run any game is dwarfed by orders of magnitude by the energy consumption of the data centers needed to run these AI abominations. That's why China's version that uses less energy (supposedly) was such big news. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] mad_djinn@lemmy.world 1 point 9 months ago anything goes as long as it makes SOMEONE happy. permalink fedilink source parent