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Is environmental impact on the top of anyones list for why they don't like ChatGPT? It's not on mine nor on anyones I have talked to.
The two most common reasons I hear are 1) no trust in the companies hosting the tools to protect consumers and 2) rampant theft of IP to train LLM models.
The author moves away from strict environmental focus despite claims to the contrary in their intro,
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... yet doesn't address the most common criticisms.
Worse, the author accuses anyone who pauses to think of the negatives of ChatGPT of being absurdly illogical.
IDK what logical fallacy this is but claiming people are "freaking out over 3Wh" is very disingenuous.
Rating as basic content: 2/10, poor and disingenuous argument
Rating as example of AI writing: 5/10, I've certainly seen worse AI slop
My reason is that you can't trust the answers regardless. Hallucinations are a rampant problem. Even if we managed to cut it down to 1/100 query will hallucinate, you can't trust ANYTHING. We've seen well trained and targeted AIs that don't directly take user input (so can't be super manipulated) in google search results recommending that people put glue on their pizzas to make the cheese stick better... or that geologists recommend eating a rock a day.
If a custom tailored AI can't cut it... the general ones are not going to be all that valuable without significant external validation/moderation.
There is also the argument that a downpour of AI generated slop is making the Internet in general less usable, hurting everyone (except the slop makers) by making true or genuine information harder to find and verify.
What exactly is the argument?