• UlyssesT [he/him]
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    28 days ago

    Every time I hear "but it can be useful sometimes in specific niche cases" I still hear the crackle of rainforests burning so someone can jack off to the infinite boobs generator, because the previous boobs that were already paid for with previous burned rainforest weren't enough.

    • EelBolshevikism [none/use name]
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      28 days ago

      You can host most stuff on a single computer these days but that doesn't take away from any of the philosophical ick

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        28 days ago

        most stuff on a single computer these days

        The massive increase in electricity costs and carbon footprint is just the wide scale "AI" grifts pushed by the corpos that basically have free rein to continue doing so then.

        • EelBolshevikism [none/use name]
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          28 days ago

          yeah the individual cost of anything is going to pale in comparison to the unsustainable wide-scale industrialization of that same thing. especially when it's something as exponentially costly as AI/techshit

          • UlyssesT [he/him]
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            28 days ago

            That's why I feel a deep groaning dread whenever some bloated tech company announces that its entire upcoming product line or service model is going to be "powered by AI." elmofire