Comment by foxglacier
6 months ago
I wouldn't ignore those arguments but most of the time, they're so poorly formed (eg. using data without logic), they aren't really worth listening to. If you believe AI provides no value, then any environmental cost is too high for you but you can't convey that by trying to dramatize how high it is. That's dishonest and I think people rightly turn off it.
Right now Open"AI", Oracle and everyone else are burning billions of dollars to buy and run these llms, they raise the price of energy around them, they provide negative economic benefit. It's dishonest of you to pretend that isn't the case.
I didn't know AI provides negative economic benefit overall. Is that what you're saying or just the it's negative for the local economies because it drives up power prices? That's an obviously small-scale, short-term and solvable problem.