We dont deserve this planet. Since i was a child some of the smarter teachers had told me, climate change and garbage are going to be our biggest issues. I was so naive I thought governments would seriously try to fix it. Instead today I see products like disposable vapes with a touchscreen and bluetooth. Just throw it in the gutter when it is empty and keep spending money.
Something is fundamentally wrong with the system. It produces new problems faster than it solves old ones and almost everyone is miserable and sick.
The AI “revolution” is, at best, leveling out, but probably already over the cliff.
If you think the e-waste is bad now, just wait until they decide to dump the contents of all of those new and now unnecessary and expensive data centers into landfills.
I doubt it is will drop as drastically as you think. Many people still use chatGPT, some for fun some for work. There are also many companies using AI chatbots as tech support and complaints departments. I saw an ad for a genetic heritage company using AI to predict what ancestors would look like. We are far from done with useless AI applications.
Who is paying to use it? Because I’m guessing their paying customer base is not exactly ballooning.
Just give time to the enshittification to move ChatGPT to subscription only and the useless applications will magically stop.
AI is just one facet of a pending eWaste epidemic over the next couple of years as Windows 10 goes EOL and Windows 11 needs TPM to work. Lots of corpos will need to replace their fleet of machines that lack this required component.
AI directly threatens our jobs, creativity, news, trust, freedoms and environment.
Tell me again, why do we want this?
Profits
How does AI threaten your creativity and freedoms?
Generative text, pictures and music, companies will absolutely use those over paying a writer, artist or composer.
what you meant to say is AI threatens your job
What I am saying is that it will become way, way more dificult finding work as an artist/writer as AI becomes better, and humanity as a whole will lose a lot of important culture.
We will also loose almost all remaining good news sites, why should a company hire a journalist when they can just feed AI the raw data they get and have it create a well written article about the event, complete with specific political biases added?
We were sold on AI taking care of the boring tasks, letting us focus on the fun and creative parts, but the reverse has happened.
The boring tasks are usually the most critical to do right, meaning they come with liabillity, a human making a misstake is fine for a company, they is normal, but an AI making a mistake is potentially dangerous for a company, it has new risks, and they are unpredictable.
But you can still be creative and have your nebulously undefinable freedom, you just can’t work- hence, it’s not taking your creativity or freedoms, it’s taking your job
The takeaway here is that we should strive for a society in which artists do not have to monetarily justify their existence
By not getting paid to be creative, their creations will have less exposure, they will also not be able to spend as much time honing their craft as they need a job to earn money to support their craft.
The takeaway here is that we should strive for a society in which artists do not have to monetarily justify their existence
And are literally hiring people to replace themselves in creative fields as I am finding out right now since that’s the field I’m in and job-searching in.
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