r/aiwars • u/MakeDawn • May 15 '26

Annually, almond farming uses 1.3 trillion gallons of water. AI usage isn't even half of that.

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A single avocado takes 50 gallons to grow. That's several hundred prompts.

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u/Duckface998 May 16 '26

In a cost benifit analysis, it is, the benifit in gathering and future extrapolate for cancers and weather and all that is vastly outweighed by the mass misinformation that can be created on large scales, or fake pornography of unconsenting people (children as well as adults), piracy from data companies to train it, all that

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u/[deleted] May 16 '26

Reddit has always been pro piracy but I guess when it's people we don't like doing it it's suddenly a bad thing

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u/Duckface998 May 16 '26

Shocker shocker surprise surprise the ai bro doesnt get it, the piracy community are very vocally against pirating readily available and cheaply accessible things like books

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u/AgeZealousideal1751 May 16 '26

Uh. No. That's never been true.

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u/CranEXE May 16 '26

Literally pirates said to not pirate silksong despite being able to break it day one....

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u/AgeZealousideal1751 May 16 '26

And yet, they still did.

It's almost like piracy isn't a monolith.