| curl-6 said: Golf courses or factories being bad for the environment too doesn't change the fact that AI also is. As someone who lives in the suburbs of a major city, I'm already inhaling car smog a lot of the time, but that doesn't mean that I should just say "fuck it" and become a pack a day smoker as well cos "I'm already damaging my lungs". |
I'm just pointing out that your assertion was meaningless as a criticism in the context that every human activity will, in fact, "damage the environment," and this one is rather low in the scale of environmental impact.
Images and slop videos make up single digits of the compute inference demand, by the way, and if you were to argue these should be more regulated or not even acessible to the public at large, I'd tend to agree with you. But most usage comes from free users adopting it as a Google substitute (which comes as a wash in terms of power consumption since the cost per token has been dropping like a rock) and reasoning coding models that people are paying for to use in their jobs.
