Anyone thinking that lemmy is a welcoming space to women should read through that thread first.

Edit: the current state of Lemmy and the fediverse reminds me heavily of early reddit, for better and for worse. You can curate some pretty supportive communities if you are careful picking them out, they remain well moderated, etc. But there are plenty of places where you’ll get scummy content if you wander or if posts attract too much attention.

Wow, what a fun cool way to call someone a slur without having the cajones to type it out plain.

I’m not speaking about AI usage for a singular operation, but instead the massive scales of commercial AI products.

Last month, OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman finally admitted what researchers have been saying for years — that the artificial intelligence (AI) industry is heading for an energy crisis. It’s an unusual admission. At the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, Altman warned that the next wave of generative AI systems will consume vastly more power than expected, and that energy systems will struggle to cope. “There’s no way to get there without a breakthrough,” he said.

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I don’t think there’s a way to decouple current AI usage with its exploititive use under capitalism, and that usage is what I am criticizing. Right here and now, it is not serving solarpunk ideals by stealing from artists and regurgitating hands that don’t make sense and solar panels that look like waves. Maybe the broader ethics could be explored in a post-capitalism, post intellectual property landscape, but that doesn’t materially affect the world in which we live and make decisions today. And it is that circumstance that this post was made, not an idealized world.

I feel like you are misinterpreting my words here. Like I said, AI can be used well, and I’m all for ethical AI usage! Being mindful about how we use technology and what costs are implied by that use is what’s important.

Solarpunk, to me, is about the beauty of what humans can accomplish with technology not subjected to the cult of perpetual growth that is capitalism. It’s about taking only what you need and then helping meet your neighbors needs next; efficiency and growth for the purposes of a clean environment, a fulfilling existence, and a future to look forward to.

Current AI implementations are extremely resource intensive, especially compared to the value they create. This energy demand has to be met from somewhere, and our grid of renewable energy is certainly not covering the excess in the US.

In a broader comparison, how cruel to leave human artists struggling under capitalism while machines produce art, based off of the hard work of those same human artists.

AI can produce good results when trained ethically (see the Japanese bakery AI detecting cancer cells!), but the majority of AI products for consumer use today are polluting our environment for novelties at best and misinformation at worst. The technology is interesting, but the implementations now are 99% not great.

Is this AI generated? Not very solarpunk if so :(

You can do this with certain apps, like Boost!

I checked and I can get Mango through my local library for free. Definitely worth looking into!

PBS Space Time

I’d recommend PBS Storied as well! It has a compilation of a few segments like Monsterum (folklore), Otherwords (etymology), Fate and Fabled (mythology), and more