Saying No and refusing to use unethical tools and platforms can be a powerful way to protest.
Do not minimize the power you have in refusing to participate.
Saying No and refusing to use unethical tools and platforms can be a powerful way to protest.
Do not minimize the power you have in refusing to participate.
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I hear a lot of talk about what the marginal environmental impact of a single genAI response is, whether you should include the amortised impact of model training and how big a difference that makes, but it seems to miss the point: every single query is a vote for "yes, please build more of this in the future" and you can't amortise that away
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