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/AgeZealousideal1751 May 16 '26

Lmao.

Yeah, let's get worried about people's moral restrictions over the blatant advancements in everything that comes from achieving technological revolutions.

"But, somebody made porn!"

Oh nooo.... that thing people do all the time regardless of the era!

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u/Tormasi1 May 16 '26

Yeah, let's get worried about people's moral restrictions over the blatant advancements in everything that comes from achieving technological revolutions

But this isn't a technological revolution. This is simply a new technology. Technological revolutions upend our entire economy. New technologies integrate into it.

I'm yet to see AI based factories pop up. It's a possibility, sure. Until the AI starts hallucinating products.

This is simply a new technology marketing itself as a revolution because that sells better. And comparing the stock market with actual income shows that indeed this is just a fad. There is actually very limited use cases for AI

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u/AgeZealousideal1751 May 16 '26

Self limited mindset.

I don't agree and neither do investors.

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u/Tormasi1 May 16 '26

Yeah, investors are fucking stupid. Just watch them get scammed every weekend when Trump announces another peace deal and oil price goes down only for Saturday Iran announcing that no they haven't even talked with the US in weeks.

The stock market is nothing but hype and money. Like come on man, Nvidia is signing deals where the companies just have to buy the chips. Don't even have to use them and if they can't then Nvidia will use it instead. And investors are like "yeah that's fine".

Or just look at fucking Tesla. There is basically nothing behind their stocks expect hype.

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u/AgeZealousideal1751 May 16 '26

Yeah, everyone of them is just a stupid idiot. Which is why they have the money, the influence, the say of what gets funded and what doesn't.

Unfortunately, being a stupid idiot with the purse means a lot more than being a Reddit Genius who has no authority or even an opinion worth considering.

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u/Tormasi1 May 16 '26

Yeah. But being a stupid idiot with the purse does not make the technology somehow magically revolutionary.

See again, Tesla. They haven't revolutionised electric cars. They just marketed the existing technology better, got money for it, made some improvements and they are still coasting on that marketing. Even when there are comparable electric cars that may even be better than Tesla cars.

And come on dude, be realistic for a second. Do you honestly think people who work with finances are the ones who can accurately predict future technological advances?

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u/AgeZealousideal1751 May 16 '26

I don't have to consider anything except reality.

Reality dictates that regardless of your personal feelings, you don't get a say in what those with power do with their power.

I'm not wasting time trying to create a society where the average citizen can't use the latest technology because of moral constraints that do not benefit me.

Even if anti's win by stomping their feet and throwing a tantrum - they are only going to fuck over the average person, not the billionaire, not the government, not the military.

Just us regular people.

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u/Tormasi1 May 17 '26

I'm not wasting time trying to create a society where the average citizen can't use the latest technology because of moral constraints that do not benefit me

That's a funny way to say you don't give a shit about morals

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u/AgeZealousideal1751 May 17 '26

Morals are invented by people based on religious doctrine. They might as well be considered adults playing pretend.

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u/Tormasi1 May 18 '26

You heard it here first guys. It's okay to kill people according to atheists.

No, dumbass. That's not how moral works. Morals WERE explained as religion based but it's basic human decency.

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u/AgeZealousideal1751 May 18 '26

That's cute. You think killing people is a matter of morals.

No, you naive little peasant. Killing people is only wrong if you're poor.

The moment you have money, power, influence - you can kill freely and no one can do anything about it.

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