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Journalists urged to scrutinize AI's resource consumption

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The author questions why journalists from publications like Ars Technica and New Scientist are not more critically examining the resource consumption of generative AI. The piece argues that the immense electricity usage and data acquisition by AI systems are not genuinely productive, despite claims from tech executives. It contrasts this with human learning, which requires less continuous data input, and poses that if AI is truly intelligent, it should not need to consume resources at such an escalating rate. AI

IMPACT Raises questions about the environmental and resource impact of AI development and the media's role in covering it.

RANK_REASON The item is an opinion piece questioning journalistic practices regarding AI resource consumption.

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Journalists urged to scrutinize AI's resource consumption

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

    Why haven't the journalists of @ [email protected] and @ newscientist et alii been vigorously questioning the "Generative # AI " people on their extre

    Why haven't the journalists of @ [email protected] and @ newscientist et alii been vigorously questioning the "Generative # AI " people on their extreme thirst for eating up resources in a totally NON-CONSTRUCTIVE way? Burning up electricity and stealing every scrap of …

    LINKS mstdn.social/@newscientist flipboard.com/@ArsTechnica c.im/@arstechnica

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