Ban generative "A.I."
Across the United States, utilities are planning new gas-fired power generation at their fastest rate in years ā in part to supply tech companies who are building out massive data centers driven by AI hype. Generative AI remains a climate disaster.
New gas plants just keep on coming, defying expectations that their rapid growth was nearing an end.
IT IS GLORY TO BATHE IN THE BLOOD OF YOUR ENEMIES BUT TO ALSO BATHE IN THE SHOWER.
This is one of the very good reasons why you shouldn't engage with these things _at all_, not for memes, not for jokes, not "just to see", not to screencap them failing at whatever. You're still doing the harmful thing!
A single 100-word email generated by an AI chatbot using GPT-4 requires 519 milliliters of water, a little more than 1 bottle. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
AI needs a lot of electricity and water to stay cool in data centers. We break down the toll prompt-by-prompt to show the scale of AIās environmental needs.
"She seemed disappointed to hear that there were sequels" is sending me
Retroactively including tone and skill stat indicators for the choices in my IF is so tedious... but I said I'd do it, so I'm doing it, damn it. š¤ Here's hoping it doesn't delay chapter 1 too much!
Anyone who thinks authors don't make money off libraries... there are almost 18,000 public libraries in the US. So if everyone went to their local branch, said "I'd like the new Pete Clines book," and they bought a copy... that's 18,000 sales. Ask any author if that'd be good for them.
Also, the great books of the past are not actually universally all that good for the modern reader, on account of being rooted in the storytelling techniques and cultural understandings of their days.
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a somber lol to these ads being all over this article "how generative ai can transform your business into a polluting, layoff machine"