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[–] XLE@piefed.social 21 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

A website advertising the rallies lists what it sees as the dangers of data centers: secrecy, water use, air pollution, national security, energy, land use and noise.

This sounds great!

If you go to their website and see some more valid concerns mixed with these valid ones. Noise pollution. Children being driven to suicide. But wait, there's some weird stuff.

if we lose control of superintelligent AI…
[ellipsis theirs]

And then you look at their call to action, and it features nothing about water, air, noise, energy, land pollution, child abuse, suicide. The only part left is the wacky stuff, warning AI will become super powerful and begging for strict regulation and testing that would squeeze out anybody but the biggest AI companies.

This project is a fucking bait and switch.

[–] AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 40 minutes ago

Frontier AI models will be restricted only for government and megacorp use, not available to all, that was always the goal.

This just gets plebes on board with it.