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   Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Saturday, 03-May-2025 20:13:17 JST Charlie Stross

   CONTROVERSIAL OPINION:

   I don't care about the environmental cost of AI.

   I care that unscrupulous sociopaths have convinced enough gullible fools that LLMs *are intelligent* to create a damaging economic hype bubble that, like all such bubbles, causes environmental damage as a side-effect! Along with mass-deskilling and unemployment and profits for trillionaires.

   Get people to realize that it's not intelligence at work, it's just statistical modeling, and tackle the root of the problem!

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     Richard Michael Blaber (rmblaber1956@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 04-May-2025 20:22:44 JST Richard Michael Blaber

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     @cstross Well, I DO care about the environmental cost of AI, even if I agree with you about the rest. The "intelligence" at the root of the problem IS sociopathic - but it isn't artificial, it's only too human!

     Rich Felker repeated this.
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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Sunday, 04-May-2025 20:22:44 JST Charlie Stross

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     • Richard Michael Blaber

     @rmblaber1956 The intelligence is corporate greed: corporations are the true AIs—very slow ones with human components, we've had them for centuries. But they preferentially select human sociopaths as components for senior managerial roles.