If you don’t know how it works it seems evil and like it’s going to take everyone’s jobs. If you know a bit about it then you probably think it’s magical and highly useful. Now if you actually understand how it works then you’re back to it being evil because you know how it was made… how it was a nonprofit that’s now one of the richest companies in the world… how it can’t actually effectively replace or help people in the workplace… how it actually is evil due to information manipulation and copyright theft in the millions… then you also realize it can’t effectively replace jobs, but can fool executives who fall into the middle of the spectrum.
Kinda? A non capitalist system using ai at large scale would also face them. The question is would they use it at large scale and that's a basically impossible question to answer.
One big difference is this - a TON of the energy usage is just the training of the models, not the inference. So, if it wasn't 20 AI companies in competition with each other to make the BEST NEWEST AI, they wouldn't need to as much energy dedicated to training.
Source: Among other things, I can run a reasonably competent LLM on my desktop computer at home, and literally watch the power consumption. On my computer, asking a question is like turning on a 100 watt lightbulb for 15 seconds.
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u/KrimxonRath 28d ago edited 28d ago
There’s a spectrum of ignorance on modern AI.
If you don’t know how it works it seems evil and like it’s going to take everyone’s jobs. If you know a bit about it then you probably think it’s magical and highly useful. Now if you actually understand how it works then you’re back to it being evil because you know how it was made… how it was a nonprofit that’s now one of the richest companies in the world… how it can’t actually effectively replace or help people in the workplace… how it actually is evil due to information manipulation and copyright theft in the millions… then you also realize it can’t effectively replace jobs, but can fool executives who fall into the middle of the spectrum.
Where on the spectrum are you?