If you’re complaining about climate impact, looking at the big picture isn’t whataboutism. It’s the biggest part of the dataset which is important for anyone who actually cares about the issue.
You’re complaining about a single cow fart, then when someone points out there are thousands of cars with greater emissions - you cry whataboutism. It’s clear you just want to have a knee-jerk reaction without rationally looking at the problem.
This is a strawman argument. AI is a tool. Like any tool, it’s used for negative things and positive things. Focusing on just the negative is disingenuous at best. And focusing on AI’s climate impact while completely ignoring the big picture is asinine (the oil industry knew they were the primary cause of climate change more than 60 years ago).
AI has many positive use-cases yet they are completely ignored by people who lack logic and rationality.
AI is helping physicists speed up experiments into supernovae to better understand the universe.
AI is helping doctors to expedite cancer screening rates.
AI is powering robots that can do the dishes.
AI is also helping to catch illegal fishing, tackle human trafficking, and track diseases.
It’s irrelevant that AI is being used. Books being summed up has already existed for many years as Sparknotes. This advent hasn’t stopped people from enjoying great books.
There are lots of good reasons to hate on AI - like the fact that it’s increasingly being used in a military capacity. This just isn’t one of those reasons.
Ableism at its finest.
This could help people learning any language, but people with an irrational hatred would rather have a knee-jerk reaction than think critically. They think this will make people stupid when they’re already so stupid that they can’t see actual use-cases.
Anyone who believes AI is being used for art/writing and not for other things like doing the dishes, has a myopic understanding and a strong confirmation bias. This strawman argument is defeated by a simple Google search to see the multitude of other places where this technology is benefiting humanity.
AI is helping physicists speed up experiments into supernovae to better understand the universe.
This infographic brought to you by the oil industry™
Please focus on this infographic and curbing your own satisfaction, so we can continue to be the biggest polluter AND make money hand over fist.
The only thing the Luddites want is an echo-chamber to feed their confirmations bias’. They’ll downvote you or completely ignore you if you bring up any positives regarding machine learning.
LLMs and machine learning are still in their infancy, yet they’re doing amazing things. It’s a tool in its early stages, not a boogeyman. Look to the billionaires if you want someone to blame. This tool set is advancing so fast that people in this thread are relying on goal posts that were moved long ago. Look at the guy claiming AI can’t generate images of proper fingers yet this is no longer true and Midjourney continues to make an insane amount of progress in such a short amount of time.
Just look at how many people (50+) upvoted the image claiming AI can’t be used to wash dishes, when a simple Google search would prove them wrong.
Not to mention… AI is helping physicists speed up experiments into supernovae to better understand the universe.
AI is helping doctors to expedite cancer screening rates.
AI is also helping to catch illegal fishing, tackle human trafficking, and track diseases.
Edit The laymen that responded couldn’t even provide a single source for their unsubstantiated beliefs. It’s fortunate that they’re so inept.