@alcinnz@floss.social I'm sorry about that. I find myself in frustrating arguments about AI as well. That's partly why I post about it here, to refine my views.

I feel like these AI conversations can end up frustrating for everyone involved partly because there is a host of prejudices and blind spots that come together around this technology. For instance, a whole lot of people, especially Americans, are energy blind--they don't have a very good sense for how much energy it takes to do stuff, where that energy comes from, and what it takes to generate and transmit energy. Some of the more outlandish "proposals" about powering the hyperscale data centers behind generative AI ambitions would have us build more nuclear reactors than there is uranium to fuel, or deploy more batteries than we have minerals to build. Most people aren't informed enough to say "uh, that's physically impossible to do?" and some end up believing these prognostications. I also feel that a whole lot of people aren't really aware of just how much outright theft of material has occurred to create things like ChatGPT. Just straight up taking such an enormous amount of material that creators put so much hard work into is unsustainable. It will have knock-on effects, like people refusing to put their work on the internet for fear of having it stolen, that degrade life for everyone (it's a kind of tragedy of the commons perpetrated by a small number of rapacious actors). Is that the world we want to live in just to have a whiz bang toy that a lot of people say makes their jobs harder?