In news that really should qualify as a "water is wet" moment, it turns out that contrary to the beliefs of evangelists and folks who have a vested financial interested in selling you so-called "AI" products, LLMs and "artificial intelligence" are not going to save us from climate crisis, but are rather directly contributing to the problem and actively accelerating the heat death of a planet that can support 8B+ humans:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/mar/07/ai-climate-change-energy-disinformation-report
Look, quite frankly I don't think you should have to be told that a product astronomically increasing energy demands in the Pig Empire, that requires an obscene amount of water just to keep the servers cool enough to operate, and allows climate science deniers and conspiracy theorist to generate a buttload of cheap propaganda and garbage disinformation, is not going to *help* us fight climate catastrophe. Given however that big market players who are actively trying to sell you AI products, companies like Google, are openly lying about its ability to do so however, I guess it's necessary to keep producing and sharing articles like this one.
The plain truth here is that capitalists, corporations, and techbro fascists have long since decided that short term profits matter more to them than whether or not the rest of us boil to death on a rapidly overheating planet. Indeed, a desire to lock in that dynamic is almost certainly why all these rich people are paying to install fascism throughout the entire "West." AI products themselves are ultimately about locking in a fascist social order that precludes the possibility of change or human agency, because if you have the ability or the knowledge to affect change, you'll probably stop them from running us off the ecological cliff in pursuit of endless profits.
These folks will, and are, lying to you because all they care about is that filthy lucre, and they have long since bought up your states and regulatory bodies that should be warning you about this and working to stop them. It's not just a question of "don't believe the hype" but rather understanding that reactionary capitalists are not going to help you save a planet they've already decided to burn to ash for 5 points a share.
#ClimateCatastrophe #AI #Google #Disinformation
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