@internetarchive just stop....

@internetarchive this sucks. im not donating to this

@internetarchive hey, uh, what the fuck

ClimateGPT is an oxymoron, and exposing children to an LLM is unethical as fuck

@internetarchive First I thought I would write some sort of response along the lines of "WTF are you doing?", but I'm actually just too tired.

You are all grown-ups and you are literally working in a place that stores the world's knowledge. If you can't see why you, of all people, feeding knowledge into OpenAI's word blender and expecting new insights to appear is an useless exercise, then nothing I say can help you.

@internetarchive looks like it didn't work

@internetarchive An archival organization promoting GenAI? No. Take this down and donate to an organization actually fighting the climate crisis.

@internetarchive this doesn't make you guys look worthy of our support if you are going to feed the machines killing our creativity and cloning our content

@internetarchive please stop this

@internetarchive suspect they're gonna get some unfollows after this from some folks. Like me! 😂

@internetarchive Stop using the damned thing.

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i'm only here to add one more "what the fuck is this, have you lost your mind" comment.

i'm pretty sure we already have all of the information we need about why the climate of our planet is becoming more dangerous, and who did it. all you've done is include yourself in the answer to the "and we know who did it" part. why would you want to be one in that number?

@internetarchive just want to pile on and say that this pile-on is far kinder than it could deservedly be. Thanks for the valuable work you do, now please put down the *fascist* poop dispensing machine and go wash your hands.

@internetarchive You could stop with this shit any time now

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I never trusted these guys.

@internetarchive https://youtu.be/l60MnDJklnM

@internetarchive

Stop doing this.

It's a huge waste of resources.

You've done good work.

This is not good work.

@internetarchive This is so insulting I hope the climate scientists here on Mastodon are enjoying their Saturday instead of watching you doing THAT.

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@internetarchive Other than money, what possible reason could you have to be promoting _that_?

Generating untold carbon emissions and exploiting global south labour to create this, then bragging about it here, is insulting. We've had climate models for generations of humans that have told us that's a bad idea.

Shameful. I hope you feel bad about this.

@internetarchive Internet archival good. Climate information good. CHATBOTS BAD! This is a bit of egg on y'all's faces imho.

@internetarchive Astoundingly insulting to do this to children and a compete capitulation to those people destroying the planet and their neighbors. What an abuse of power and a breaking of trust.

Sorry, if that was too specific.

TL; DR: enjoy the boot

@internetarchive I'm very sad of seeing you on this.

@internetarchive A lot of responses here are over-the-top and uncivil. I agree with all of them.

@internetarchive Do you understand how deeply embarrassing this is for you?

@internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org you really expect us to believe a chat bot will provide answers or solutions to climate change? No. It is a problem caused solely by the wealthy elite who only believe in an Earth worth exploiting. The only solution is to name and shame those elite. Anything else is playing into the lie that everyday people can somehow reverse this pattern of exploitation.

@internetarchive man, Brewster, this ain't the way.

@internetarchive

@internetarchive it's a real shame that you chose to do this

instead of, say, asking any of the expert humans you have access to if they would help you work with student groups

@internetarchive jesus fucking christ I'm tired

@internetarchive Next ask the candlestick how to reconstruct Colonel Mustard's skull. Jesus Christ.

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I can get a mix of useful answers, wrong turns and outright refusals by asking a magic 8 ball.

@internetarchive you should 𝑛𝑜𝑡 be 𝑓𝑢𝑐𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔‍ doing that
if you trained it yourself you are 𝑜𝑢𝑡‍ 𝑜𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑑𝑎𝑚𝑛 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑠 naming it after the evil products that OpenAI, one of the most vile & destructive companies in the history of modern tech, vomited onto society
who the hell's idea was this? what on earth is wrong with you all

@internetarchive jfc we're doomed

@internetarchive really? AI? You, the internet archive?

@internetarchive why are you so stupid?

@internetarchive

You should outright refuse to be associated with AI at all. wtf are you doing?

@internetarchive

The more questions you ask of ClimateGPT the worse the fucking climate gets.

Fucking hell.

@internetarchive what is wrong with everyone today holy fuck

@internetarchive Please. Not you, too. Especially you guys, I respect the hell out of your work. I do! But how can you not see that this kind of "AI" is highly unethical and is kind of at the opposite end of values you of all institutions should stand for? I am truly disappointed, especially as I already have donated to you and dearly want to support your work and mission. But not like this. I will not stand for you uncritically endorsing projects like these.

@internetarchive how about no?

@internetarchive congrats on cooking your brains on the fascism machine

@internetarchive did someone take over the board? What's going on here

@internetarchive This reduces my trust in the Internet Archive and makes me stop donating.

@internetarchive This goes directly against the Internet Archive's mission of facilitating preservation of media & knowledge for the future. There is no point in doing so if you also promote the use of a technology which damages people's ability to learn.

Also, a LLM is the wrong "tool" for the job of climate & long term weather analysis. Not even close. When you want something like this you should always ask a professional, in this case a climatologist.

Does anyone know another general media archival project I can share things with that might use that data more responsibly than Internet Archive is very clearly about to? I don't feel comfortable sharing media with an archive that has embraced such a destructive technology.

@internetarchive

You're taking the piss surely?

@internetarchive no thanks.

@internetarchive the fucking what