• undrwater@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    A tool becomes “good” or “bad” based on its implementation.

    The current trend towards massive unsustainable data centers is pretty objectively “bad” for humans and other creatures for questionable benefit.

    Localized AI, on the other hand, would be less harmful, and more useful. This would move the needle towards a more objective “good”.

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      23 hours ago

      Yeah it’s like gmos. The biggest companies in the game are well documented as ill-intentioned profiteers. The technology isn’t inherently bad.

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      23 hours ago

      Then be an activist. Never pay for AI, I don’t. Maybe 30 dollars a year for tools I can’t do without, but take everything for free. Make the unsustainability fall due to its own weight. That doesn’t mean I don’t use AI every day for work, spirituality, and learning. Take advantage of what you have available. Group think sucks.

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          Not op, but i assume they just mean talking to an llm about spiritual topics. Especially local ai, if you pick a less censored model so it doesnt constantly spit refusals, they can hold conversations on difficult topics pretty well now. Whether that is politics, religion, law, finance, medicine, or roleplaying porn, doesnt really matter to the llm.

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            20 hours ago

            This you?

            Never pay for AI, I don’t. Maybe 30 dollars a year for tools I can’t do without, but take everything for free.

            Maybe you were referring to non-AI tools, though the mention of that here would be unusual, so the most likely reading of this is that you were saying something like “I don’t pay for AI, except when I do”.

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              19 hours ago

              I see where you’re coming from… When there is no way of doing something without AI I take on a job and pay peanuts for AI. I choose to earn money over not paying for AI. I can totally live without it, it’s just work is preferrable than a tantrum.