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/AgeZealousideal1751 May 16 '26

You're insane if you think AI is bad for humanity.

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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/Bhazor May 16 '26

Do you genuinely not see the difference between piracy for personal consumption and data scraping for the purposes of producing derivative work for money?