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The Kings Demands (infosec.pub)

submitted 4 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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[–] Flauschige_Lemmata@lemmy.world 37 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

The king wants everyone to make a ghibly avatar and thank him for it.

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 7 points 3 days ago

And if you don't find a way to integrate your fancy ghibli avatar routine into your daily water pumping for "efficiency", you'll get the dungeon.

[–] BanMe@lemmy.world -5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Where was the outrage - and where IS it still - about PCs and circuit manufacturing that allowed the computing revolution to occur? The negative externalities have always been kids getting cancer, growing up scavenging metals from landfills in other countries. Whole generations of people.

Just about everything we do has negative externalities like that. Plastic recycling, textile production, the labor used to build houses and harvest crops in the US.

I'm not trying to tu quoque anyone here, because we should be able to criticize things even though we participate in those or other problematic issues. But it seems like the AI hatred is so strong on this site, and it's absent any other hatred and outrage that could have long been a focal point up until now. We get it, you hate AI, which has been around for a few years in LLM form and hasn't been perfected yet, even though consumer electronics companies have still not managed to meet their environmental goals after decades, and you're certainly using those devices to your hearts content.

Sometimes I think Lemmy should just be renamed "We fucking hate AI and will never budge on that."

[–] 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.

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