• Starya67@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    AI is literally destroying the environment. How the FUCK do so many people not realise this. The data centres use massive amounts of water, their owners refuse to use renewables, they take up space on the power grid so it becomes impossible to build new housing, etc ad nauseum.

    My God.

    • architect@thelemmy.club
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      3 days ago

      My hoa forces us to water our lawns in a drought when it’s illegal to.

      Celebs have planes and yachts they use on a whim.

      The entire internet now uses some form of ai.

      So you first. Get offline and go live in the fucking woods.

    • lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      Like I said, if they can fix that problem, then I’m fine with it. The resources it currently consumes is the reason why I kind of detest 4K and 8K AI videos. But I also kind of detest 4K and 8K TVs and monitors. We don’t need that many god damn pixels. Unless you’re a bird of prey, 4K is a complete waste of electricity.

        • architect@thelemmy.club
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          3 days ago

          I have this feeling the vast majority of lemmy sells their labor to the most evil fucking corporations on the planet.

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          3 days ago

          Except you don’t need to eat meat, you’re just justifying the destruction you like. That’s not to say that AI is anything close to as relevant as food, but the point still stands, meat production is destructive to the environment.

          • Crit@lemmy.wtf
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            3 days ago

            Something can be both useful and also destructive. Pretty sure people have done the maths and to approach the levels of efficiency that say meat has you’d be consuming a lot more calories. Similarly actual milk is better than soy milk.

            This isn’t to diss people that make the choice, but your quality of life will be worse, so yes I count that as those meat products being necessary, in spite of the environmental damage. I think there are better ways to fix that. Diversifying the meat industry, lowering food waste, etc. What seems more interesting at the moment is lab grown meat, since it has all the pros with none of the cons, except cost.

            • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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              2 days ago

              You should check your facts about meat efficiency, soy milk and dairy… And don’t just ask ai to tell you what you want to hear…