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Ask yourself, what value does it add?
I don't know about value but certainly a lot of cost to hardware.
No, AI does not. Data centers do, and they're being used for AI, but AI can be used without data centers. You're mis-attributing the blame. Blame negligent corporations making unnecessary data centers, not the technology they aim to use.
Better medicine and healthcare in general.
At the expense of most people's income of course because that's what it's mainly used for and electricity and their health directly and indirectly.
Machine learning in medicine and healthcare has been around for decades, and has basically nothing to do with the LLM and image generation garbage that has now colloquially become known as "AI".
Half the problem with "AI hate" is how goddamned nebulous of a term it's become. When people say they hate AI, they're almost certainly talking about specifically all the new generative commercialized stuff from just the past few years, but so many people hear that and assume something a LOT broader.
Most of the time they're not even talking about AI, they're instead talking about ancillaries like data centers, but they can't fathom the distinction.
Hmmmm I wonder what all these data centers are being used for.
Yeah, and authors are to blame for trees being cut down. It doesn't matter that books don't necessarily to be printed on paper, it's a clear line from authors writing to trees being cut down, so we should all hate authors.
Right?