@trashwizardmidnight posting Not trying to do the pariah thing. But I do want to engage on this question: this was personally useful for you and basically no one else. And it burned dog knows how much resources to produce that result. How valuable does that result have to be in order to justify that resource expenditure?

The burning of fossil fuels for the electricity and the water usage is a one-way process. It can’t be restored or renewed. (Renewable energy could be used, but in practice it isn’t because there isn’t enough) If everyone justified their own personal use without taking into account the costs on society, we will just burn the planet.

Even if it DOES work in some instance, is it reasonable for each person to make this individual choice and leave the collective society to deal with the aggregated consequences? Does the individual have any obligation to think about the collective, or is all the AI use OK as long as each individual finds their individual results useful? How much AI prompting and energy use and so on is OK?

Individuals can’t even know how much energy is being used because the shady AI companies won’t be honest.
How do we expect individuals to make this decision? Or do we all just ignore it and do what we want?

I’m asking in a bit of an inflammatory way, but it’s a legit question.
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