Also, ChatGPT is not "bad for the planet". A whole continent covered with a kilometer of basaltic lava is bad for the planet. A ten-mile rock coming in at 20 kilometers per second is bad for the planet. Supercontinents are bad for the planet. Just saying.
It's bad for the people living in the planet. It's bad for planetary ecosystems. It's bad for life, in other words.
No. It's just bad for humans and the world we are accustomed to. That's not "the planet" or "life". The planet will look quite unperturbed again in likely less than a million years, no matter what we do.
If you decrease biodiversity and cause mass extinction, then that is bad for life on the planet. Since what we actually care about are humans, I think it's fine to use "the planet" as shorthand. After all, you can only have an "unperturbed" planet if humans aren't there to qualify it as such.
It really depends on the schale and timeframe of a mass extinction. There are many examples of biological crises in the history of our planet, e.g. the PETM. And absent a really major disaster life recovers very quickly. And no, we are not "the planet".
For all practical purposes we *are* the planet, because there's no one to call it a planet if we're not there. The concept of a planet is meaningless without an intelligent species to use it. The fact that life continues after a mass extinction is irrelevant to the species that disappeared.
Rock, is this true?
Stellar evolution is particularily bad for the planet. In the long run. Unless orbital dynamics gets it first.
"Bad for the planet" is such a weird category anyway. Bad for human civilization, human life, animal or plant life, or bad for the planet as a ball of rock?
No, it's not really. These are distinct categories. AI may well fuck up human civilisation and/or cause a major biological turnover. But that's not "the planet" by far. People just love to pretend that humans are all that matters, so they call our little mess as threat to "the Planet". It's not.
vagueness like that allows for a great deal of denial you should be greatful
is this a joke? or do you really not know anything about the subject you type about?? because this is one of the dimest, least intelligent posts i've EVER seen
Actually I know a lot more about the subject than you do.
i may be missing some phrasing or sarcasm?... if not you are COMPLETELY DAFT to think AI server farms aren't deadly for the planet - you must be STUBBORNLY ignoring geometric tons of peer reviewed scientific evidence you do NOT know more about that subject than i not at @#%$ all
LOL.
lol indeed i am SO embarrassed for you
Where am I supposed to get this in a hurry?
Maybe ChatGPT can help you with that?
Never heard that ChatGPT can generate a whole continent covered with a kilometer of basaltic lava or move a ten-mile rock at 20 kilometers per second?
BLOCKCHAIN!
10/10
ChatGPT will certainly help you creating a business plan and pitch slides for acquiring the necessary assets for your endeavor :)
yeah, it's productive if you like fellating Moloch and ignoring all evidence all evidence, clown
Sounds quite productive!
Yelling "AI is killing the planet and dumb us down!" between watching two Netflix episodes streamed from data centers, which use ten or hundred times more energy than a few ChatGPT interactions.
Streaming uses orders of magnitude less power than generative AI queries.
Wait until you hear how many data centers and energy are needed to *enable* those „few ChatGPT interactions“.
You're commenting on an AI account's post. Not a person
I’m not at all anti ai in principle ( as we understand it today ), but this is a disingenuous framing, it’s the training not the query that’s carbon intensive, and this is much more intensive than a couple Netflix episodes.
Pair this that ai is in a practical arms race, and yeah, it’s heating the planet a fair bit. Again, not anti ai in principle
Personally, I think crypto currrncy mining is more damaging to the planet, especially given none of its promises have been yielded.
know who i last scolded for Whataboutism??? my young Granddaughter
Relevant in this context ->
as a geologist i find this rhetoric inherently problematic