Post #1097947
2026-04-05 10:27 UTC
Replies (5)
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@username_1@programming.dev 2026-04-05 10:30
That would be wonderful if those anti-AI folk would stop using LLMs and switch their attention to something more constructive. But they can’t.
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@LeapSecond@lemmy.zip 2026-04-05 10:42
It’d be fine if that was the case. Right now if you don’t like it you’re still forced to read (and often review) AI generated rumblings, communicate with LLMs instead of humans when contacting support, accept AI-specific terms even you won’t use the AI part of a product, have data centers pollute your city and pay ridiculous amount of money for a stick of ram.
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@badgermurphy@lemmy.world 2026-04-07 03:00
I think you might be surprised. Generative AI has limited utility and costs a lot to operate; so much, in fact that t does not appear there are enough natural resources on the planet we’re on to ramp it up to the scale that is intended. Soon, the hype-based funding will dry up, and the free and subsidized generative AI tokens will all disappear. Only then will we see the true cost of using it and if users will bear that cost. If it costs a lot of money to ask it to do things, people will go back to doing a lot of those things themselves.
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@finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-04-05 16:19
> I think is people don’t like it they don’t need to use it. Tell that to the people living near new data centers who can't get clean water and are being charged exorbitant rates for electricity. They have no say in the matter. - [Lincoln Institute of Land Policy | Data Drain: The Land and Water Impacts of the AI Boom ](https://www.lincolninst.edu/publications/land-lines-magazine/articles/land-water-impacts-data-centers/) - [Consumer Reports | AI Data Centers: Big Tech's Impact on Electric Bills, Water, and More](https://www.consumerreports.org/data-centers/ai-data-centers-impact-on-electric-bills-water-and-more-a1040338678/) - [Forbes | America’s AI Boom Is Running Into An Unplanned Water Problem](https://www.forbes.com/sites/kensilverstein/2026/01/11/americas-ai-boom-is-running-into-an-unplanned-water-problem/) - [CNBC | AI data center ‘frenzy’ is pushing up your electric bill — here’s why](https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/26/ai-data-center-frenzy-is-pushing-up-your-electric-bill-heres-why.html) This is occuring all over the US, these issues are far from isolated incidents.
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@pet1t@piefed.social 2026-04-05 15:07
Useful to who? If you need an LLM to write just a basic e-mail/comment/caption you're maybe ... how do I say this nicely? Not that smart ... If you use an LLM as a search engine, same thing. If you use an LLM as a psychologist, same damn thing. And the majority of people are using it for those things. It's just plain stupidity. I'm not saying there's no use to AI, but right now it's being used in a terrible way by people that have no use for it at all.