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A rising tide of e-waste, made worse by AI, threatens our health, the environment and the economy (theconversation.com)

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[–] FireRetardant 21 points 2 weeks ago

We dont deserve this planet. Since i was a child some of the smarter teachers had told me, climate change and garbage are going to be our biggest issues. I was so naive I thought governments would seriously try to fix it. Instead today I see products like disposable vapes with a touchscreen and bluetooth. Just throw it in the gutter when it is empty and keep spending money.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

Something is fundamentally wrong with the system. It produces new problems faster than it solves old ones and almost everyone is miserable and sick.

[–] FlyingSquid 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The AI "revolution" is, at best, leveling out, but probably already over the cliff.

If you think the e-waste is bad now, just wait until they decide to dump the contents of all of those new and now unnecessary and expensive data centers into landfills.

[–] FireRetardant 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I doubt it is will drop as drastically as you think. Many people still use chatGPT, some for fun some for work. There are also many companies using AI chatbots as tech support and complaints departments. I saw an ad for a genetic heritage company using AI to predict what ancestors would look like. We are far from done with useless AI applications.

[–] FlyingSquid 9 points 2 weeks ago

Who is paying to use it? Because I'm guessing their paying customer base is not exactly ballooning.

[–] Nikelui 5 points 2 weeks ago

Just give time to the enshittification to move ChatGPT to subscription only and the useless applications will magically stop.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

AI is just one facet of a pending eWaste epidemic over the next couple of years as Windows 10 goes EOL and Windows 11 needs TPM to work. Lots of corpos will need to replace their fleet of machines that lack this required component.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

AI directly threatens our jobs, creativity, news, trust, freedoms and environment.

Tell me again, why do we want this?

[–] RememberTheApollo_ 10 points 2 weeks ago

Profits

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

How does AI threaten your creativity and freedoms?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Generative text, pictures and music, companies will absolutely use those over paying a writer, artist or composer.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

what you meant to say is AI threatens your job

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What I am saying is that it will become way, way more dificult finding work as an artist/writer as AI becomes better, and humanity as a whole will lose a lot of important culture.

We will also loose almost all remaining good news sites, why should a company hire a journalist when they can just feed AI the raw data they get and have it create a well written article about the event, complete with specific political biases added?

We were sold on AI taking care of the boring tasks, letting us focus on the fun and creative parts, but the reverse has happened.

The boring tasks are usually the most critical to do right, meaning they come with liabillity, a human making a misstake is fine for a company, they is normal, but an AI making a mistake is potentially dangerous for a company, it has new risks, and they are unpredictable.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

But you can still be creative and have your nebulously undefinable freedom, you just can't work- hence, it's not taking your creativity or freedoms, it's taking your job

The takeaway here is that we should strive for a society in which artists do not have to monetarily justify their existence

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

By not getting paid to be creative, their creations will have less exposure, they will also not be able to spend as much time honing their craft as they need a job to earn money to support their craft.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

The takeaway here is that we should strive for a society in which artists do not have to monetarily justify their existence

[–] FlyingSquid -4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

And are literally hiring people to replace themselves in creative fields as I am finding out right now since that's the field I'm in and job-searching in.

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