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   Gerry McGovern (gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green)'s status on Tuesday, 07-May-2024 23:45:12 JST Gerry McGovern

   "We’re creating content at a mind-boggling pace and scale: 54,000 photos are taken every second, and this year we’re estimated to create around 120 zettabytes of data. By 2035, data creation is predicted to exceed 2,000 zettabytes. Printing out just one zettabyte would require paper from 20 trillion trees (except we only have 3.5 trillion trees on Earth), or would fill more than 212 billion standard DVDs."

   https://thespinoff.co.nz/science/06-05-2024/the-climate-cost-of-your-digital-life

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     Gerry McGovern (gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green)'s status on Tuesday, 07-May-2024 23:45:10 JST Gerry McGovern

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     • Suzanne Aldrich (she/her)

     @suzannealdrich Ah, doing something good for the environment. No way. AI design is dependent on vast quantities of data. It needs to eat all the pictures you'll never look at. You can't believe how many photo an AI eats for breakfast every morning. And the more rotten and useless, the more its loves them. AI is a child of Super Size Me. AI is McDonald's and Coke in code.

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     Suzanne Aldrich (she/her) (suzannealdrich@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 07-May-2024 23:45:11 JST Suzanne Aldrich (she/her)

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     @gerrymcgovern If they weren’t such big monopolies, incentivized to make money from our profligate picture taking, big cloud would be training ML models to help me pare down my ridiculous photographic proliferation.

     Minoru Saba repeated this.