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Nuclear power can make energy.
Nuclear power can eradicate the planet and leave areas uninhabitable for untold years, and those it doesn't vaporize are altered for the rest of their lives. And sometimes they aren't aware until years after.
AI has good uses when applied carefully, such as in medical research.
AI is also being used as a reason to replace workers, it consumes massive amounts of energy, it creates sound and infrasound destroying environments around it, it consumes massive quantities of drinking water from surrounding areas, and is ultimately spurring on a society of wealthy ruling class who view humans as cattle, out in the open, and no one is stopping them.
Is it any wonder why people hate these things? But yes, a tool is a tool. It's the people using it that hate should be properly directed towards. Unfortunately, those same ruling class epstein elites dismantled education over decades, so it's harder for people in this day and age to think dialectically. It's easier to think in black and white, in extremes, just like media would have you believe, just as the culture wars have taught us for decades.
Those detriments listed can also be mitigated. AI can be powered with clean energy, and cooled with closed loops. They're not, but they could be. AI isn't to blame, it's greedy, negligent corporations that are using AI.
Until there's an energy surplus, any clean energy used for AI could could be used for something else that displaces fossil fuel use. If someone wanted to make a data center that sat on the ocean floor and uses the heat differential from thermal vents and ocean water, that would be an exception, but no one is proposing that.
You're right. We should ban AI, video games, Christmas lights, television, and anything else that uses energy in a way you don't approve of until there's an energy surplus. No argument here.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1116327/ai-energy-usage-climate-footprint-big-tech/
And for what? Not having to hire artists? A chat bot that will tell you to kill yourself? What problem of mine does AI solve?
The same problem Christmas lights and video games solve: none. It's totally useless! Ban them all.
I've learned there's no good that can come from admitting you use AI - you'll only get an angry mob after you. That's why I've never used AI and never will. It's evil! Evil I tell you! Hit it with a banhammer, quick, before it gets away! Don't let it lay it's eggs!
Leaded gas, asbestos, DDT, freon... all technologies who's advantages did not out weight their disadvantages. AI falls into the same category. What exactly does AI do for you? Does it outweigh the energy cost and health cost for the people living near the datacenters?
Yep, you're right. It's toxic and no one should use it.
Me? Nothing. I've never used it and I never will use it. I've heard the angry mob comes after you with insults and argument if you even admit to thinking about using it, and I have no need of all that hate in my life. So I've never used it, and will never use it.
Bro didn't make it to the last paragraph. Those attention spans though.
~~I'm not sure what you mean. I read the last paragraph, then read it two more times to be sure I didn't miss anything. What are you insinuating?~~
Nevermind. I get it, you're criticizing me for reiterating the conclusions.