The AI takeover that no one asked for is coming at a massive cost to people and planet 😮💨
Behind the AI hype is a surge in energy use, data centre expansion and growing threats to democracy.
Can it still be called progress if it deepens environmental harm, surveillance, and the grip of Big Tech and autocrats on power?
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A stick figure smiling and relaxing with a pillow. The caption is, "No, I don't want an Al-assisted experience, everywhere I look.
I want clean air, forests, and a future for the next generations."
@greenpeace does anyone believe a generation using AI instead of reading, understanding, learning will be able to stand up against a technology that fully determins their lives and cannot be questioned?
By the way, the phenomenom is not that new. It was called plagiarism before.
@greenpeace and water! I’ve been tracking the impact of an AI data centre construction in South Korea and a whole aquatic ecosystem is disappearing to build a water-guzzling piece of infrastructure in an area already experiencing drought.
@greenpeace It can be called ”progress”, but only because the first page of the reactionary playbook is on destroying the communications ecosystem.
To a classicaly schooled engineer however, words like improvement and progress are reserved for cases where the same input of resources gives a better output, or if a reduced input gives the same output.
An example:
”I’m making progress on my path finding algorithm; it now yields a more reliable result, and at 10% fewer CPU cycles.”
#FakeAI - #DigitalGrifters.
#GriftersGonnaGrift until the Power & Money runs out. #TechBros #TechOligarchs.
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