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2026-07-14 16:12 UTC

@MartinGuay@mstdn.ca And I don't think your points above are bad at all and while there is a lot of misunderstanding on the topic, I don't think it's reasonable to equate the battery life automation on devices to like fully generating hours-long videos from Sora, on any of the points people have concerns and complaints about (energy, water, stolen labor).

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@MartinGuay@mstdn.ca 2026-07-14 18:23

@goosedbear@woof.group You make a really fair point about marketing flattening the tech—there's a massive difference in computational impact between a tiny on-device ML model and a massive, resource-heavy GenAI cluster. But the reality we have to face is that the genie is completely out of the bottle. GenAI is scaling exponentially, and no amount of consumer pushback or ethical pressure on the industry is going to halt its deployment or shrink the demand. The tech simply isn't going backward. Because of that, trying to restrict the algorithms or complain about their footprint isn't a viable long-term strategy. The focus has to shift entirely from software restriction to physical infrastructure. We don't need to starve the tech; we need to aggressively build out massive, next-generation energy capacity—like clean nuclear and advanced geothermal—to upgrade our grids and sustain the inevitable digital future.

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