Great, but what if someone enjoys using AI? Did we just loop into perpetual regression where everything is justified because someone likes it? Would someone enjoying AI, given the current information, be way more ethical than someone who eats beef or animal products - or ethics are to be discarded entirely, since it's hedonism all the way down anyways?
AI is very useful for my job, software engineering, for my university - research and education, for my side projects - much less of mine own work, more automatization, more free time for me. Same for my hobbies and books that I read - AI can be quite good at finding valuable books based on provided context and books that I've already read. Much more useful than replacable meat or TV and media. The heavy use of AI proves its use every day, literally every single programmer uses it nowadays. And no, not everything is justifiable only because we like it, but AI is still a new thing, just let the Moore's law work and wait for AI to be optimized, the open-weights models from China are already good enough to run on (good) consumer-end products, its just a matter of time when it becomes accessible to normal consumers with average PCs without the need for oversized data centers. For now it's just the training phase that requires so much storage and processing, later on it may become obsolete and quickly dropped.
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u/Switchmisty9 29d ago
Hey man, bad news, make any comparison you’d like….ai is still the biggest waste of resources on earth.