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Author argues current AI reality necessitates engagement with its negative impacts

The author argues that even those sympathetic to AI's underlying technology must confront its current negative realities. These include massive data center energy consumption, wrongful arrests from AI surveillance, and the degradation of the internet. The piece concludes that a good-faith defense of AI as it currently exists is impossible. AI

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IMPACT Highlights concerns about AI's societal and environmental costs, urging critical engagement with its current applications.

RANK_REASON The item is an opinion piece from a named individual on a social media platform discussing the negative impacts of AI.

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  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 · [email protected] ·

    The thing is, even if you *are* someone sympathetic to the core technology at the root of the AI hysteria - as I am - you have to engage with the reality of AI.

    The thing is, even if you *are* someone sympathetic to the core technology at the root of the AI hysteria - as I am - you have to engage with the reality of AI. And that reality is one of data centers that use as much power as entire states, innocent people wrongfully arrested du…