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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)
You could have already done all of this with the internet itself...I dont understand why people think they need llms. Hell, you could have done all of that just from books, no internet needed. I feel like people are as lazy as they've ever been.
Also, you totally trust everything you learned. Thats not smart, being that its literally a corporate owned propaganda machine thats purpose is only to sell you ads to make the rich richer. Why do you think they are putting billions into it? Its sure as FUCK not for betterment of humanity.
"Also, you totally trust everything you learned." Never said I trusted it. You just exaggerated something I said so you could argue the counterpoint.