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I've noticed an uptick in the number of pro-AI posts on this platform.

Various posts with titles similar to "When will people stop being afraid of AI" or "Can we please acknowledge AI was very needed for X"

Can't tell if its the propaganda machine invading, or annoying teenage tech-bros who are detached from reality.

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[โ€“] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

More so that the widespread use of AI encourages more and more data centers being built, which uses an insane amount of electricity, most of which is not generated with renewables, accelerating the already dire global warming.

In other words, people's desire to get crappy art or hallucinated code is speeding up the death of our planet and everything on it.

[โ€“] drmoose@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

Let's not delude ourselves that we don't need more datacenters shall we? We'll never need less compute, ever so these will have to be built anyway.

There's an answer to all of these problems that, ironically, isn't binary do or don't but rage bait gets the better of everyone and here we are.