Newspapers are really nailing these GenAI ragebait pieces. > We know that the energy-intensive tech drains our water supply and hikes electricity bills. Befor

Newspapers are really nailing these GenAI ragebait pieces. > We know that the energy-intensive tech drains our water supply and hikes electricity bills. Before GenAI, there was Google, AWS, Facebook, not to mention Netflix and friends. A single streaming episode probably uses more resources all told than reasonable ChatGPT use over a month. > It is sold as a placebo for human connection; lonely, disconnected people finding companionship or even falling in love with code is not as much a sci-fi plot point as it is just the way things go now. Anything/everything possible is sold as a placebo for human connection because loneliness is a powerful human motivator (Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, etc. etc.) Before that: TV. > The megarich tech bros in charge of all this think in terms of profit first and people second. Most profitable corps think about profit, yes. The idea is that they can't profit unless people get something good out of it. If they can profit without people getting something good, it's a failure in the system, so the correct target is market breakdown: bad regulation, unbroken monopolies, fraud, etc. > OK, so ChatGPT helps you write your grocery list. Does your individual convenience outweigh the societal harm it can cause? ...