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Something I found interesting about reading this thread is that it made me wonder how many people think of ChatGPT as primarily a tool for writing things for you I use ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini possibly 100+ times a day and NONE of those uses are to produce writing that I then share with other people

why would you use it at all!? its destroying the environment

even if its half as bad as commonly reported, its still a catastrophy. using these ai platforms is absurdly dumb, especially for the smartest among us.

I also attend conferences (where thousands of people fly in for the event), watch YouTube and go on road trips - AI usage is a tiny slither of my carbon footprint, even taking into account my share of training costs

hey, we're all hypocrites, but, AI is just unnecessary and so grotesque .. that shiny new toy can solve everything. while ignoring the fact that all the environmental progress we've made over decades is being erased so that people can make cartoon avatars of themselves without having art skill

I think it might actually be _saving_ the environment. The energy demand is so high that Google, Meta and Microsoft are looking into building Nuclear energy based power stations, which are super-green! Over time, energy demand from AI should go down, and electricity generation should get greener.

omg. sure. nuclear. nothing could go wrong.

That's a common fear people have. But here's the data: ourworldindata.org/nuclear-energy "Nuclear energy, for example, results in 99.9% fewer deaths than brown coal, 99.8% fewer than coal, 99.7% fewer than oil, and 97.6% fewer than gas. Wind and solar are just as safe."