FlyingSquid

That is training, not use. You are being dishonest.

I have a friend I've had since high school with that name and with that spelling who pronounced it a different way (closer to 'camera'), so I go there for a second sometimes without realizing it, but correct myself quickly enough.

It's somewhere in the back.

The sad part is, they are.

Is Rhode Island the state smaller than any U.S. city?

Ok, let's look at your own words then:

I heard a large AI model is equivalent to the emissions from five cars over its lifetime.

Cool, I hear lots of things. Where's the evidence?

So, absent of AI, it’s not like we’re up in arms about the waste and usage from other technologies. AI is being singled out—it’s the star of the show right now.

Who is we? I am not happy about any of it, but especially when it is something not especially useful (you could have used spelling and grammar checkers that have predated AI by many years but you decided to waste water).

And I don't really care about the potential of an orphan-crushing machine as long as we let it keep crushing orphans.

I love this last part the best though:

Sure, it consumes energy and has costs

We can just forget about these because you didn't want to use standard grammar and spellcheckers and they have the potential to do a bunch of things they can't do. Awesome. Totally worth the end of civilization.

Imagine if none of that mattered and we didn't have to categorize things that are funny!

It's crazier than that. If you put every single definition of Generation X together, it stretches from the late 1920s to the mid-1980s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_X#Terminology_and_etymology

She was 13 when Star Wars came out. That makes her Gen-X as far as I'm concerned.

Not being able to use your own words to explain something to me and having the thing that is an ecological disaster that also lies all the time explain it to me instead really only reinforces my point that there's no reason to like this technology.

That's exactly what it is. It's saying, "white men like me know how to really pronounce your name and you don't."

Not just sophomoric, as the article points out. Plain old bigoted.

"It's one thing to mispronounce someone's name on the first try, right? But to do it repeatedly and deliberately, it feels purposeful. It's certainly done to make a point. It is othering, a way of saying you don't belong here," said Jean Sinzdak, the associate director of the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University.

"I would describe it as a racist and sexist attack on her because she's been the vice president for three and a half years," Sinzdak said. "It's not hard to say her name. It's not complicated."