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Imagine complaining about the water a data center uses in Texas but being totally fine with the billions of gallons it uses to cool it's two nuclear power stations. Yes I looked it up, yes it's a ridiculous hypocrisy and yes it would be lovely if people stopped falling for clickbait like this.
You are missing the point that it's millions of gallons daily, just for AI. You know the thing that actively makes our lives worse for no reason at all
I'm sorry it's making your life actively worse and I'd love to hear exactly how, because for me it's done nothing but improve my life in so many ways. It's got me over writers block so many times, helped me work through tricky problems of all kinds, taught me all sorts of excellent drawing, singing and music creation skills, helped me make sense of societal and political issues that I would not normally have understood and answered questions with a total absence of ego that I would never have had the nerve to ask before for fear of sounding stupid.
Hegelian dialectical materialism? It walked me through conversationally until I got it. The feasibility of someone being rich enough to build a rocket and just leave earth forever? It laid everything out in incredible detail (the resources required, it turns out, would be mindbogglingly insane).
AI hating is dumb and that's a hill I'll happily die on.
(Edit: fixed my atrocious spelling)
Something tells me all of the stuff you're creating with the assistance of AI is garbage.
Not even because you're using AI to do it, but because what most people create isn't impressive and I doubt your skilled enough to be an exception.
You might think AI is helping you and making you better, but that's probably because you're not put in actual positions where your performance is measured and matters.
For me, AI is only useful for consolidating search results into a response. It's wrong more often than its not, and to make use of what it says in any meaningful capacity requires knowledge that AI can't give you.