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Generative AI criticized for IP theft, hallucinations, and environmental impact

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The author expresses strong opposition to generative AI, criticizing its reliance on stolen intellectual property and its tendency to produce untrustworthy, hallucinated outputs. They also highlight the significant environmental costs associated with AI, including high water and energy consumption, which exacerbate the climate crisis. The author believes these upstream input problems and downstream output issues are ignored by proponents who focus only on alleged benefits. AI

RANK_REASON The item is a personal opinion piece on social media, not a news report or research.

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Generative AI criticized for IP theft, hallucinations, and environmental impact

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  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    @ chadmccullough the pattern i keep seeing from the various slopbot fans incl here in fedi alas, is they focus on their alleged downstream output benefits [ oh

    @ chadmccullough the pattern i keep seeing from the various slopbot fans incl here in fedi alas, is they focus on their alleged downstream output benefits [ oh but we can do this, & that, & t'other ] & ignore my simple assertions of the upstream input problems, viz: theft, energy…

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