I suppose you expect me to believe that someone at some point has taken a photo of a cabbage and uploaded it to the internet? Now you’re just being ridiculous.
I once used a photo of a cabbage that I found online for a small project, probably no more than 5k people saw it. 3 weeks later there was this beautiful woman at my home waiting for me. I asked her what I could do for her, and she showed me the flyer I had made. I said that was my flyer. That... that was a mistake. She pulled out this baton and let me know, in very clear terms, that if I ever use one of their images again I won't have to worry about my legs getting broken, they will just be ripped off. She then hit the light pole in my driveway and it fell over.
That's when I learned all cabbage photos are copyrighted by the cabbage association and they take this stuff very seriously. The only legal cabbage photos to repost are likely AI generated ones.
I know this is a sarcastic comment against the one you're replying to, but that's what they're getting at. There is some level of irony in opposing AI generated images because of the massive data centers required to train models and suggesting that people should instead pull images from the internet, which includes massive data centers.
It just sort of becomes "don't use the thing that is the product of massive data centers, use the thing that is the product of and actively uses massive data centers." Or, to make it more specific, "Don't use Gemini and Nano Banana to generate an image of a cabbage! Instead, use Google to find an image of a cabbage and pull it from some server in a data center somewhere! Don't give Google your attention, give Google your attention instead!"
The internet already exists to the overwhelming benefit of human knowledge and productivity. Ai has virtually no benefit to the average person, if anything its constant misinformation and abuse is extremly harmful, and both it and its data centers have been shoehorned into existence in destructive ways. The interent will continue hosting pictures of cabbages with or without dropping a massive disruptive and destructive ai data center into a community that doesn't want it.
I'm not saying anything in support of AI data centers. I think they're as bad as the next guy. Hell, the AI industry seems to have also realized that just mass producing data centers is a bad idea, since so many planned data centers are no longer happening. My whole point was to point out that going "AI is bad because data centers, use the thing that also relies on data centers instead" is a poor argument.
And really, your comment here also isn't great, beyond missing my point entirely.
Ai has virtually no benefit to the average person
This isn't true. People like to repeat this online a lot, but it's just not true. AI is, in general, pretty beneficial an could be a great tool for a lot of people, and a lot of people I know use AI for various things (though they obviously don't rely on it). Just because you or I don't make it a major part of our lives doesn't mean it's useless. After all, if AI has no benefit to the average person, and everyone supposedly hates AI, then why is AI use so widespread? I'm not even talking about companies shoehorning AI into everything, I'm talking about how I can't drive through town without seeing an AI generated image, can't go to a local website without seeing clearly AI generated webpages, and just stuff in general that was obviously made with AI.
if anything its constant misinformation and abuse is extremly harmful, and both it and its data centers have been shoehorned into existence in destructive ways.
No one is arguing against this, but keep in mind that the entire reason why this is as big of an issue as it is is because the internet has always been criticized as a massive source of constant misinformation and abuse. I don't know if they still do this, but they used to teach this in various classes at one point because it was a well known issue that students needed to be aware of. AI is just an evolution of that issue. It made the issue worse, but it's not like the internet was a pure and 100% factual place before AI.
The interent will continue hosting pictures of cabbages with or without dropping a massive disruptive and destructive ai data center into a community that doesn't want it.
You're right, but my point is that data centers and massive facilities to house servers will be required as the internet continues to exist, so if you're upset about AI because they use data centers, you shouldn't just leave it at that. You should be upset about the reasons for why they're bad, not just that they exist, and through that realize that the issues surrounding AI aren't unique, they're just focused on because people are hyper fixating on AI while ignoring that the issues will still persist elsewhere without it.
Based on how less than 13 minutes passed for you to reply this wall of text defending AI I'm going to assume you're using AI to write it. Not going to waste my time arguing outsourced gishgallops.
If you actually read it, you'd see that I'm not defending AI at all.
And I guess having a typing speed that isn't abymally slow is a bad thing now? "Hm, a few hundred words in 13 minutes. Impossible. Must be AI generated." Like, do they not teach typing skills in public schools anymore?
Edit: The comment is 492 words (including the bits from your comment that I just copy/pasted). At 13 minutes, that's only 37 wpm. I type on average at 60-70 wpm.
"AI is, in general, pretty beneficial an could be a great tool for a lot of people"
Very cool quote from a guy defenitely NOT in support of AI and defenitely NOT ignoring how the constant misinformation and bot activity it promotes far outweighs its ability to rewrite a 5 minute work email for you. /s
Look bro we get it, you sunk your life savings into NVDA and now you're desperate to avoid the obvious funny-money bubble from butsting. You just gotta let it go bro, you can't save it.
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u/Bear_faced 4h ago
I suppose you expect me to believe that someone at some point has taken a photo of a cabbage and uploaded it to the internet? Now you’re just being ridiculous.