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I feel like people parroting these tropes uncritically are the ones who should be worried about their own cognitive decline.
Are we wrong tho, and why?
The energy consumption trope in particular hasn't been true for a while now. You can literally run models on your laptop for most tasks, and these are models that have capability that needed a data centre literally less than a year go. Meanwhile, the whole notion of people offloading their cognitive capacity to models is based on a handful of studies with tiny samples. So yes, you are wrong, and you just run around uncritically repeating nonsense thinking you're being really profound.
So we can stop building new AI datacenters? :D
I mean that's already happening. Less than half of the proposed ones is being built, and once the bubble pops I don't think even the ones that are currently being started will get finished.
Glad to read some good news this morning.
Such a strong science backed rebuttal.
I'm gonna go rethink my entire life now.
Being aware of the numerous massive lawsuits currently being levied against AI companies for their theft, reading research papers on cognitive decline in AI users, and being aware of where the majority of energy in the US comes from, especially for new AI datacenters, really does have a cognitive impact, but it isn't decline.
As strong a rebuttal as a parrot requires. I also love how you lump together a whole bunch of issues inherent in capitalism in your complaint further illustrating that you're not able to put together a coherent argument.