[he] addressed the “immense” energy needs of AI, acknowledging that the intensive energy requirements of expanding AI ventures have caused slippage on Alphabet’s climate targets. However, Pichai insisted that the company still wants to achieve net zero by 2030 through investments in new energy technologies. “The rate at which we were hoping to make progress will be impacted,” Pichai said, warning that constraining an economy based on energy “will have consequences.”
We need “line go up” so badly, we’re willing to bake the planet.
“We will have to work through societal disruptions,” he said, adding that the technology would “create new opportunities” and “evolve and transition certain jobs.”
Someone once described AI as “a way for the wealthy to access the benefits of the skilled, without allowing the skilled to access the benefits of wealth”.
Any economy or technology that can’t work within energy constraints doesn’t deserve to exist. For fuck’s sake, even Bitcoin adjusts difficulty down during its frequent crashes.
or since there are FOSS AI models that are free as in free beer it allows everyone to access the benefits of the privileged - i.e. those who can specialized in fields like arts that aren’t conducive to making enough money out of the gate to survive as a working class person
Do you have another retort besides “lol”? Spending the amount of time required to produce professional art when an income isn’t directly guaranteed is a risk most of us can’t take, FYI.
You still can’t make
Yeah and why would I need to?
If I don’t enjoy that particular process nearly enough to learn how to make it good, and I wanted it to be good and I was feeling creative and had an idea for it, I could just get it made for me, free of charge, free of corpo influence or any strings attached. It’s a sweet deal.
Because you don’t care about making art, so you choose comfort and financial safety.
Yeah, I choose to eat, so do you, evidently.
But my choices on how I earn that bread were more limited than yours, again - evidently.
Beyond that, I choose not to make assumptions about you or your life like you’ve done with mine.
Also lol “comfort and financial safety”. No. Not for most people in most of this world. It’s more like survival vs not survival.
So how does this have nothing to do with privilege? It literally is what privilege is.
Telling poors to learn art is like telling someone to bet everything on starting a business. It’s a good idea only if you’re rich, because if you fail - and to learn you must fail sometimes - you can try again, but the working class doesn’t get the luxury of second chances.
You’re talking about outsourcing art, but then complain about who actually make art.
No, I’m talking about generating art from a prompt, I have no issues with people who make art obviously, as long as they don’t have an issue with those who lack the resources to develop the skills and instead use AI to put their ideas into action or polish existing ones.
If you’d like to change my mind, show me a few professionally successful present-day working class artists.
This means they:
Make most of their income from their work
Most active period this or past decade and they are no older than 40.
Working class background, so no artists in family at all, no industry connections they didn’t make themselves, no nepotism etc.
Also lol, of course I care about making art, why else would I be even talking about it, much less pointing out that generative AI accidentally or not - corrects a class injustice?
If I saw no value in making art, why would I ever consider it an injustice that the working class cannot enjoy it?
I make music in my spare time whenever I can and have for years, and no I don’t and would never use any generative AI tools for the music itself, nor do I even sample any other music, and I think I’ve even improved at it somewhat despite a lack of basically any education on the subject matter beyond a few guides and YouTube videos on music theory here and there. It’s a highly rewarding hobby.
Realistically though, that ‘whenever’ is simply not enough time to create anything professional and polished enough for me to sell and for it to appeal to anyone besides myself and whatever loved one is unfortunate enough to be subjected to it.
Oh the great technology god will help us. We will have so much reduction, you cannot imagine! We have no idea how but surely throwing money at it will get things done. Trust us!
We need “line go up” so badly, we’re willing to bake the planet.
Someone once described AI as “a way for the wealthy to access the benefits of the skilled, without allowing the skilled to access the benefits of wealth”.
Any economy or technology that can’t work within energy constraints doesn’t deserve to exist. For fuck’s sake, even Bitcoin adjusts difficulty down during its frequent crashes.
or since there are FOSS AI models that are free as in free beer it allows everyone to access the benefits of the privileged - i.e. those who can specialized in fields like arts that aren’t conducive to making enough money out of the gate to survive as a working class person
“Privileged” lol.
If you couldn’t make a poem before “AI”, you still can’t make a poem now.
Do you have another retort besides “lol”? Spending the amount of time required to produce professional art when an income isn’t directly guaranteed is a risk most of us can’t take, FYI.
Yeah and why would I need to?
If I don’t enjoy that particular process nearly enough to learn how to make it good, and I wanted it to be good and I was feeling creative and had an idea for it, I could just get it made for me, free of charge, free of corpo influence or any strings attached. It’s a sweet deal.
Because you don’t care about making art, so you choose comfort and financial safety. It has nothing to do with “Privilege”.
You’re talking about outsourcing art, but then complain about who actually make art.
Art isn’t output/result. That’s exactly what you’re getting from your gen slop.
Yeah, I choose to eat, so do you, evidently.
But my choices on how I earn that bread were more limited than yours, again - evidently.
Beyond that, I choose not to make assumptions about you or your life like you’ve done with mine.
Also lol “comfort and financial safety”. No. Not for most people in most of this world. It’s more like survival vs not survival.
So how does this have nothing to do with privilege? It literally is what privilege is.
Telling poors to learn art is like telling someone to bet everything on starting a business. It’s a good idea only if you’re rich, because if you fail - and to learn you must fail sometimes - you can try again, but the working class doesn’t get the luxury of second chances.
No, I’m talking about generating art from a prompt, I have no issues with people who make art obviously, as long as they don’t have an issue with those who lack the resources to develop the skills and instead use AI to put their ideas into action or polish existing ones.
If you’d like to change my mind, show me a few professionally successful present-day working class artists.
This means they:
Also lol, of course I care about making art, why else would I be even talking about it, much less pointing out that generative AI accidentally or not - corrects a class injustice?
If I saw no value in making art, why would I ever consider it an injustice that the working class cannot enjoy it?
I make music in my spare time whenever I can and have for years, and no I don’t and would never use any generative AI tools for the music itself, nor do I even sample any other music, and I think I’ve even improved at it somewhat despite a lack of basically any education on the subject matter beyond a few guides and YouTube videos on music theory here and there. It’s a highly rewarding hobby.
Realistically though, that ‘whenever’ is simply not enough time to create anything professional and polished enough for me to sell and for it to appeal to anyone besides myself and whatever loved one is unfortunate enough to be subjected to it.
I stopped reading after the first two sentences.
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Wow, so mean.
Oh the great technology god will help us. We will have so much reduction, you cannot imagine! We have no idea how but surely throwing money at it will get things done. Trust us!