| > Firstly, there’s the environmental impact. Models require massive amounts of electricity and water (to cool servers). An AI chatbot contributes more to the climate crisis than a Google search. I really dislike the "people should be better and use less energy" argument for solving macro-problems like this > My naive optimism led me to believe that technology would help us fight climate change. I was wrong: AI and Crypto are net negatives in this regard. ...why? why would technology that specifically requires a lot of energy help "fight climate change"? this entirely article is missing any point to me -- it's very vague and speaking in generalities. > “If you’re going to use generative tools powered by large language models, don’t pretend you don’t know how your sausage is made.” why? if you generate code with a LLM, then read and deeply understand the code, what's wrong? > I can’t help but feel the web would be a better place if the technology had never existed in the first place. if we didn't invent the wheel, we wouldn't have so many cars/trucks polluting the planet |
There's no good reason it would. Nevertheless, proponents of both AI and crypto have claimed multiple times it would. So I think it is quite fair to bring it up.
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