I agree that #AI has an environmental problem, but Mastodon's default position of "anything to do with AI is inherently evil" does not feel particularly productive.
I find a lot of AI plenty useful, even LLMs. If I'm going to take the environmental costs seriously as a user, I need to talk about it much more precisely, and carefully than what's happening now.
Saying "AI is an environmental crime of gigantic proportions." is so over-the-top, there's no meaningful conversation left to have.
Peter Bloem
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