AI could be such a neat, useful thing. But nope, capitalists can’t help themselves. Gotta use it to grift the internet with low quality content and steal from artists.

  • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    It’s also a pandora’s box of burning up even more fossil fuels to fuel the deluge of cheap crap it creates. It’s harrowing to think for like one neat ai thing, there’s 500 million shitty ones and hectares of the amazon burnt down.

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        To be fair to AI, AI art and the like actually create some sort of products for investors even if they all suck and are grifts. NFTs are just a basic denial of reality lathed into existence by the uber-rich.

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      Entrusting environmental progress to free market means just meant that we have crypto NFTs and LLMs burning so much extra fossil fuels it’s akin to a new first world country springing up out of nowhere, but also you can overpay for water in cans now.