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[–] 28 points 5 months ago (10 children)

AI apologists in the wild are so weird.

LLMs in current form are protested because they’re a worthless “technology” that also wastes a fuck ton of resources so the ruling class can do IP theft at scale.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (2 children)

    Except it's using very little water overall

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  • [–] -4 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

    Why does everyone jump to AI? A gigantic portion of data centers power streaming services, cloud hosting, and content delivery networks / caching services.

    I understand the sentiment against the proliferation of data centers and the impact they have on the local environment but services people consume on the regular have driven this for years now.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago

    Because those services are actually useful. LLMs are just plagiarism machines. The only way they are remotely useful is because they "saved" a lot of money by stealing all the data on the internet. And even then, they have to operate at a huge loss. They're also stealing from everyone by getting government subsidies and by ignoring environmental laws.

    Remember, just because data is on the internet, it doesn't mean it doesn't have an owner.

    If billionaires played by everyone's rules and had to operate with profit, LLMs would be so incredibly expensive that no one would use them. They only seem remotely useful because basically all of society is footing part of the bill.

    For the other services provided for data centers, whoever uses them does pay them, and it's not expensive. You don't need 5GW to serve a 30 minute video.

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