I always thought AI was really cool, like inherently and on the face of it. Generative AI makes you feel like you’re out of Star Trek sometimes. The distaste so many people have with AI comes down to the fact it violates copyright in a nebulous way (lib shit) and that it’s a genuine threat to the livelihood of artists (real shit.) It will be easier to feel optimistic about AI when we can be sure we’re living in an economy that prioritizes lives over profit, because only in that society can generative AI and artists truly live together peacefully.
My experience with AI is pretty limited to what I can fuck around with on my own system. So I’m not seeing its energy use as any bigger of a problem than how capitalists will be using it to further trim down production and steal even more wealth. I don’t think anything about the current state of AI is great, but that has more to do with the current state of the world than AI itself.
In my perfect future, even if peak generative AI was an energy-draining unviable mess of a technology, the novelty would still be enough that I’d want to see it in a specialty museum, or the service available to the public in some way.
I always thought AI was really cool, like inherently and on the face of it. Generative AI makes you feel like you’re out of Star Trek sometimes. The distaste so many people have with AI comes down to the fact it violates copyright in a nebulous way (lib shit) and that it’s a genuine threat to the livelihood of artists (real shit.) It will be easier to feel optimistic about AI when we can be sure we’re living in an economy that prioritizes lives over profit, because only in that society can generative AI and artists truly live together peacefully.
What about the energy consumption?
My experience with AI is pretty limited to what I can fuck around with on my own system. So I’m not seeing its energy use as any bigger of a problem than how capitalists will be using it to further trim down production and steal even more wealth. I don’t think anything about the current state of AI is great, but that has more to do with the current state of the world than AI itself.
In my perfect future, even if peak generative AI was an energy-draining unviable mess of a technology, the novelty would still be enough that I’d want to see it in a specialty museum, or the service available to the public in some way.