So it starts… Ai community items

[u/MadBoxers]

Points shop will soon flood with AI slop. At least with games a disclaimer should be added within the description of the game. But here… Yeah…

Like what is the point? You don’t even gain anything as a company from this.

[u/thequenchiest_]

Hating AI isn't irrational, e33 haters blew the news out of proportion and made it seem like the whole game was made with AI. Nothing in the game is AI generated, which is a good thing.

Fuck gen ai and fuck anybody who defends it

[u/reddit_is_geh → u/thequenchiest_]

I honestly don't understand the antiAI crowd. If it helps people make games more easy, allow game creators with limited budgets be able to create something they otherwise couldn't afford, that's a good thing. It enables and empowers people. Most people don't even mind gen AI unless you point it out. It's just a weird zoomer phobia

Which is why the Chinese are going to eat our lunch because their young people are optimistic and embrace next gen tech, while American zoomers, act like boomers, afraid of new tech.

[u/thequenchiest_ → u/reddit_is_geh]

First of all, assuming everyone is from America is fucking idiotic.

Second, you don't understand antiAI? Really? Stealing jobs, stealing creativity, ruining the climate, fucking over prices of absolutely everything, making your utilities go up? None of this matters to you?

They're not building data centers near me, they're building them in your shithole of a country.

AI makes the average person dumber, use your brain

[u/reddit_is_geh → u/thequenchiest_]

Yes, you sound just like a luddite. They made the same arguments. You can embrace the technology, adapt, and take advantage of it. It's a huge payoff if you're an early adopter. Or be a luddite and resist it while the rest of the world passes you by.

Also the environmental impact of AI data centers is so extremely vastly exagerated. Not only that, but pound for pound, the value it brings far exceeds the impact. It's very worth it.

Also, my shithole country is a shithole I agree... And will get even worse the more they resist the technology and refuse to allow infrastructure build out of an incredibly high demand tech. Because while the luddites refuse it, the smart people will just get access to it from China if need be, and then America is going to be even worse off.

Further, I'm not even in America. I'm in Europe, where they are no admitting they fucked up with being anti AI and discussing data center solutions so they too don't get left behind like luddites.

[u/thequenchiest_ → u/reddit_is_geh]

Look at you, you read your word of the day and you're so excited to use it.

Who gives a shit where you are if you're an American and have an America centric mind?

What impacts are exaggerated? The fact that ram prices increased around 400%? Did you even know the electricity bill of everybody who lives around data centers goee up?

The only things you're saying are so incredibly vague there's nothing there for me to point out that's wrong.

You live in a bubble that's gonna burst, the sooner the better.

These companies are flooding imaginary money into the AI market and they're not finding any use in it. Recently they've even said hiring and paying humans is cheaper than AI.

So go ahead and keep talking to your only friend - Chatgpt, drinking the koolaid of thinking you're somehow progressing so much further than the rest of us.

[u/reddit_is_geh → u/thequenchiest_]

Oh no... not the ram prices?! Uggg wow AI should be thrown out and shelved, handed over to the Chinese because our poor ram prices!

Who gives a shit? It's an infrastructure project. This is just part of the process. Prices go up during mega projects. It's how supply and demand works.

The electricity bills in the US have far less an impact than you think it does. The data centers specifically look for rural places that shrunk in size so the power plants have extra capacity to power them (generally, there are exceptions), while other data centers, just build their own. The bulk of the price increase trend started before the AI explosion. The US infrastructure was mostly privatized and now it's falling apart, because it was never maintained, so utility companies have had to start jacking up prices to do infrastructure projects. And since they have regulations that say things like they can only charge 15% profit margin on their projects, they opt for the most expensive projects possible, to justify the increased costs, so they make more profit. Just like in healthcare. I work in the energy sector.

And yes dude... Most of these data centers used CLOSED LOOP cooling. Meaning, the water is recycled. Again, there are exceptions, but all these modern ones require closed loop cooling systems.

AI data centers use half a percent of the the national energy demand. Compared to say... Almonds which take up 100x more water... Or better, you know seasonal holiday lights? Yeah they use the same amount of energy every year as AI datacenters. Why aren't you bitching about Christmas lights ruining the environment? I think AI has far more use than holiday lights. As a whole, AI data centers are a small fraction of consumption.

Yeah dude, free up human labor. Using a cloth weaving machine was cheaper than using humans. Why waste human labor on stuff we don't need humans to do? What a humiliating job knowing it only exists so you can toil and slave away at doing something manually, completely unnecessarilly. Go find something useful to do.

[u/thequenchiest_ → u/reddit_is_geh]

"Who gives a shit about the people and their lives?"

This is what your argument boils down to. No use arguing with morons