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The Kings Demands (infosec.pub)

submitted 3 days ago by Maven@piefed.zip to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

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Alt Text: The cartoon illustrates the problem of water use in the AI age: a farmer's child and his mother are pumping a little water from a well for their daily use. Two knights in armor, transporting a large, spherical water container on wheels, come by and say, "The King wishes to make more avatars of himself as a Ghibli character."
In the background, a castle sits enthroned on a hill. The cartoon illustrates the excessive water consumption required for AI model queries.

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[–] aciddev@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 days ago

I honestly think that it's really misplaced. Like, yes, AI is the reason e.g. RAM prices skyrocketed, but not by itself, it's because of companies having gargantuan demand that's higher than RAM companies can produce, so they crank up the prices to stop them. It's just how economies in bubbles work. And AI is stealing people's art not because it's sentient and wants to harm humanity (yet 😶) but because it profits people that operate it. It's just human greed, repackaged™.

I really liked this video about it by diinki, highly recommend watching it.

Also, just a little bit of nihilistic off-topic: don't hate anything that bad. Like, I understand that it is really easy and reasonable to hate AI. But this is kinda too much, and it will devour you. Meditate kids. We know AI is bad, we don't need you telling us that, go do things you actually like (and what I, as an average user may want to see e.g. in this community) instead of spreading hatered online.