| ▲ | newsclues 14 hours ago |
| I feel like we ought to cost things. How much does a court case cost? What is the environmental cost of AI generated content? |
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| ▲ | teamspirit 14 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| All this energy being burned to create shitty images, shitty music, and shitty videos that all amount to essentially shitty memes. I don’t understand how the singular focus isn’t on solving humanity’s problems. We already have artists, we don’t have a cure for cancer or the climate crisis. |
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| ▲ | johnfn 14 hours ago | parent [-] | | Why aren't you working on curing cancer? | | |
| ▲ | xrisk 14 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I don’t think what he works on burns a bunch of energy for nothing though. | | |
| ▲ | gus_massa 13 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Let's hope he is not the guy that checks the tickets for a roller coaster. They just send people from A to A using an ineficient path that burns a bunch of energy. | | |
| ▲ | 1986 13 hours ago | parent [-] | | Nobody is out there saying that we need to bring a bunch of nuclear plants online to power our rollercoasters though. | | |
| ▲ | gus_massa 9 hours ago | parent [-] | | What about the Disney park in Florida? This source claims they use 1E9Kwh per year http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2019/ph241/howell2/ A random google search claims a nuclear power plant produces 1gw, that is 9E9Kwh, so enought topower 9 of them. How many parks do they have? Can we include Disney+? Can we include other similar parks? Some people think Disney is useful and pay for it. Some people think AI is useful and pay for it. |
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| ▲ | johnfn 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I hope he doesn't work at any tech company; I'm pretty sure you could say that about all of them. I also hope he doesn't have a car - that pointlessly burns energy when he could be taking public transit instead. |
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| ▲ | spunker540 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | There’s an episode of Seinfeld that opens with some standup where Jerry is joking how scientists are working on seedless watermelon, and why aren’t scientists working on more important things. And I always think the same thing! “… so the comedian is complaining about how scientists spend their time…” It’s a fine joke, but deep down the instinct is very top-down and suggest centrally planned economies, dare I say communism! |
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| ▲ | GenerocUsername 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| - He types from a machine filled to the brim with rare earth metals |
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