Even if the electricity was renewable sources, there’s the opportunity cost. You spent that electricity on AI instead of something more useful and immediate.
“Various reasons” being the intractability and absolute dominance of capitalism. People are in a race to dominate the world, as such they can’t be bothered with writing public domain software, or waiting for renewable energy to come online. They can’t even wait for hardware to be built before buying it!
I mean, it’s kind of like asking a herd of zebras, “would lions be so bad if they just ate grass instead?” Like, sure, but the reality is that lions will always eat meat just as inevitably as AI will always be horrible under capitalism.
the problems with AI can be easily mitigated, they just aren’t for various reasons.
You can have an AI trained on public domain content, running on electricity from renewable sources and locally hosted. What’s the problem then?
Even if the electricity was renewable sources, there’s the opportunity cost. You spent that electricity on AI instead of something more useful and immediate.
I assure you that electricity was going to be wasted on some dumb fuck thing anyway.
“Various reasons” being the intractability and absolute dominance of capitalism. People are in a race to dominate the world, as such they can’t be bothered with writing public domain software, or waiting for renewable energy to come online. They can’t even wait for hardware to be built before buying it!
I mean, it’s kind of like asking a herd of zebras, “would lions be so bad if they just ate grass instead?” Like, sure, but the reality is that lions will always eat meat just as inevitably as AI will always be horrible under capitalism.