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[–] 56 points 1 month ago (10 children)

I think people hate AI because:

  • it's trained on their stolen works
  • they get no credit or payment when derivative works are made
  • it let's business owners threaten to dismiss more workers (who need to work to live, since there are no safety nets in place)
  • when workers DO get displaced by AI, the AI does a shoddier job (enshittifying products and processes)
  • further enables and accelerates the concentration of capital to the absolutely-most-wealthy-people

I could go on and on.

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  • [+] [S] -37 points 1 month ago (7 children)

    These are implementation critiques

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Data centers needed for AI are driving up electricity costs to surrounding residents, they use ungodly amounts of water to cool the systems and dump that now hot water back into the ecosystem, causing ecosystem collapse or into the municipal wastewater process, overloading treatment plants, children are using it to do their homework, potentially harming their ability to critically read and write (this is still being studied, and most evidence is anecdotal or still in review).

    Electrical and water usage - Penn State U

    https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/ask-expert-are-data-centers-driving-my-electricity-bills

    Other electrical effects of AI and water demand - DW

    https://www.dw.com/en/the-hidden-environmental-cost-of-ai-data-centers/a-78789889

    Deep dive into water usage by data centers - University of Georgia

    https://fieldreport.caes.uga.edu/publications/TP121/how-data-centers-impact-surface-and-ground-waters/

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