You found a greenwasher. There's a lot of them.

Welcome to the platform for real humans instead of clankers

The only way to control people's behavior is to change the real world cost. Want to decrease consumption of high resource and CO2 foods? Stop externalizing their cost. Want to decrease people's AI usage? Stop externalizing costs. Want to encourage people to switch to lower CO2 transport? Stop externalizing costs. Want to encourage upcycling and decrease waste? Stop externalizing costs. Want companies in any business to decrease their ecological impact? Stop externalizing costs. If we actually charged what things cost then any market would naturally correct itself. If we just globally charged what things actually cost then that would about solve the situation almost overnight.

I looked up the company, and turns out this program might be part of a Keynote Livestream that is featuring the Mayor of San Fransisco lol.

What is the name of the company?

Reddit's LLM powered filter (I am guessing Gemini) is interesting. I jokingly said to constantly bump your car into some else's car just hard enough to leave a mark but not create serious damage. The trigger may have been my use of the phrase "love tap" as I was instantly dinged a 3 day "ban" for advocating physical violence against another human being.

Meanwhile with another service I posted a quote from a 19th century historical figure I hadn't know was a socialist and mysteriously the quote disappeared after I clicked submit. I freely admit my grasp of "good" grammar and English may not be that secure, but I am confident the text was there, and then suddenly it was gone.

Soon you can cripple the US by knocking chatgpt off of the internet.

On a plane? Hmmm

It is gross that someone who believes in sustainability would use AI for a thing IRL specifically dedicated for sustainability. People really shouldn't be using AI at all, but this is the worst version of it.

Cognitive dissonance, or grifters just grifting

dude, they were on a flight, you know they're not serious from the get go

https://www.yesmagazine.org/issue/life-after-oil/2016/02/11/how-far-can-we-get-without-flying

Hour for hour, there’s no better way to warm the planet than to fly in a plane.

Oh that could be me... I work at a major organization that directly interacts at the highest levels of climate policymaking. You know what I recently learned from our comms team? Policymakers are asking AI about the options in front of them. So they advised us to feed as much data as we can into these AIs, so that when policymakers ask AI about their options, they will not only get the lobbyist answer. What a world to live in.

Its a good reminder that capitalism and its infinite urgency and extraction ideology is fueling the climate crisis and AI is just the latest and worst iteration of it.

Needing to fly because our lives are so squshed by that same capitallism that makes taking a bus or train impractical is yet another symptom

Soon LLM tools will become a luxury for the more affluent like flying as prices adjust up to correct for the absurd costs

The issue here is using a llm to write protentialy really important documentation that should really be backed by real science.

The issue is not the obvious hypocrisy.

This is a variation on the “you said, on an iphone line” ai is everywhere people will use it and can still meaningfully criticize wasting tremendous amount of energy.

How many of y'all do not eat meat, do not shop online, only consume content from ethical non corporate sources?

The problem here is the blind confidence people have in these shallow text machines.

Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

Can't wait for them to field a question to clarify a point. :)

"It turns out that the only way we can save the earth and control climate change and add sustainability is a whole shitload of data centers! I guess it's true then." /s

On a plane.

Always a lot of private jets, yachts and hypercars used to participate in clima conferences, with agreements on future negotiations and CO2 tradings, enjoying the buffet with cocktails and caviar.

Just link to this when referencing "irony"

It's a self-correcting problem. The coming era of scarcity and sobriety will make these behaviors impossible.

Sounds like he's got a career in politics ahead of him!

they used the weapon of the enemy.

You were on a plane. Already that's a red flag for sustainability

This website is being inundated with pro-AI losers.

Read the name of the comm you're in if this is triggering you.

If you're still having trouble, I guess you better ask black box autocorrect to help you figure it out.

So you saw someone use chatgpt and you where concerned about the environmental impact. While you're on a jet plane.

You do see the irony here, yeah?

Maybe start by minding your own business. I'd hate to have you sitting behind me on a plane while I might be writing something that's private.

Sustainability and Climate Conference? Sounds bizzare, why would anyone write for that.

Pop quiz. What consumes more water in the USA; data centers, or golf courses? data centers, or people watering their lawns?

Complaining about the environmental effect of data centers with the flesh of vulnerable individuals still stuck between your teeth is literally insane. If you do that, then clearly the climate is just an excuse, and your real motivations have nothing to do with the climate effects of data centers.

Not on the same level of self-unawareness, but I once sat on an intercontinental flight with a dude beside me whose only (pre)occupation for 11 hours straight (!) was to write a keynote about leadership. Not once did he even look at me or the person sitting on his right side, let alone interact with us. I was like. Dude. TF would you ever know about leadership which is...you know...90% knowing how to actually interact with people ?