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Blaming climate change on AI seems like a stretch

• latexr 2y ago
  That’s not what I said, and taking the argument in good faith would make it obvious. Of course AI isn’t to blame for climate change, it started way before this craze and there isn’t one single culprit. But the energy consumption doesn’t help, and burning more fossil fuels to power this energy-hungry systems makes it worse, that’s the point. https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366592778/Microsoft-and-Googles-GHG-emissions-gains-call-viability-of-net-zero-targets-into-question https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366592778/Microsoft-and-...
  • 93po 2y ago
    i think the point is that we have to pick and choose our battles, everything has an impact, but i think the impact of AI in terms of positives has incredible, massive upside given the negative externalities of the power generation used to power it. sure, bitcoin is stupid, let's not do that. on the list of common sense things we should do to combat climate change, energy used for AI is like #100, especially considering the big names are trying to use nuclear ASAP to power it in a clean way