Post #3603753

@WTL@mastodon.social @deathbydenim@mstdn.social again, I get the frustration, and I agree in hindsight that. the image was a bad call. I should have taken tte extra time to find and use an actual flood photo. No argument there. My bad. But I don’t accept the broader “uses AI-adjacent tool/image, therefore climate message completely invalid” framing. That’s a neat moral shortcut, but it’s not a rational evidence-based argument. AI infrastructure definitely has real environmental costs when done poorly, and those costs deserve full scrutiny. But better siting, clean power use, low-water cooling, water recycling and efficient data-centre designs are real solutions. My mistake was using a bad image. The climate and flood-preparedness argument still stands.