It is real.

Here’s the biggest rabbit hole you can go down. Alec has multiple videos just about dishwashers.

https://youtu.be/jHP942Livy0

You can curse me later when you’ve spent 2 hours learning about Christmas light colours and LEDs.

That is correct.

Not if they’re the only employee left… still CEO.

With the right skills built out first, the CEO absolutely could be the person doing that.

You HAVE seen it write. You have definitely seen it write poorly. However, you’ve also seen it write at a level where you didn’t even notice it wasn’t human written.

Just because something CAN produce bad output does not mean it can only produce bad output.

I can produce excellent output. I am also fully capable of producing slop. I’m human btw.

Because to do it manually you need to find the sources for each of those values, then put it all in a table, then do the complete math.

Checking involves clicking the source link(s), then doing a quick mental calculation to see if it’s approximately correct.

Which is still less effort than doing it from scratch yourself.

I know you guys want to hate ai for everything, but it’s not as bad as you think it is.

No they aren’t. I ran it through gemini and it gave me a perfect answer. I double checked it against public values for nutrition.

Ask AI… That kind of task is pretty trivial for modern LLMs.

I’ve got a floppy disk attached to my desk. It has “Super important backup” written on it, and a magnet holding it to the desk frame.

I’m old.

Despite the hatred, advertising works most of the time.

If nobody knows about your product or service, you can’t make any money. Word of mouth doesn’t cut it beyond a local store.

Agreed, the concept of copyright itself is problematic. The flip on this one boggles me. People are constantly arguing that copyright is bad every time Disney or some company use it to make money. Now they’re arguing that copyright is good and LLMs should respect it.

A billion people in the world are vegetarians, and yet 15% of the world’s energy is going to Meat production. They didn’t ask for meat production but there it is.

You also misunderstand what “push to exist” really boils down to. AI is being used by companies because it saves them money, people are buying the products from these companies. They could choose more expensive options that do not use AI, but they are not actually doing that.

By that same logic, people aren’t responsible for the transportation and energy use for any industry, but without customers those industries would not exist and therefore their energy use wouldn’t happen.

That’s why it’s individual responsibility that is causing this disaster, and people putting their head in the sand and blaming billionaires does not help that.

It’s in my comment history. Feel free to pretend I didn’t do it, but it doesn’t change reality.

Based on the last time I did the math a few months ago, and the projections of AI datacenter builds, they’re expected to reach maybe 0.5% of total global energy use by 2030. HALF OF A PERCENT.

I don’t know how even spreading that out matters at all. It’s simply not a concern we should be focusing on until we solve things like meat production (15% of global energy use), transportation (something like 20% of global use), and more efficiency on systems like home and building heating (another 20-25%).

Go do the math on Datacenter energy use. How much of Global Energy use do they account for (include all datacenters even).

I’ve done that math. It’s fucking nothing at the scale of total human use. They are not the issue.

Everyone can change if pushed hard enough. Would you just die if a natural disaster wiped out your entire city/state and you were forced to relocate elsewhere? No, you would not. So it’s clearly possible.

What math? Nobody else has posted math on my comments except me.

The world will burn until people realize that simply blaming others does not fix the issue.

That article is trash. It implies that the carbon emitted by the companies they own is caused by the billionaires.

Amazon’s carbon use is from the people buying shit, not from bezos himself.

You think bezos is somehow responsible for the plane emissions to fly that piece of shit plastic toy from China to your house?

Give your head a shake.