CONTROVERSIAL OPINION:
I don't care about the environmental cost of AI.
I care that unscrupulous sociopaths have convinced enough gullible fools that LLMs *are intelligent* to create a damaging economic hype bubble that, like all such bubbles, causes environmental damage as a side-effect! Along with mass-deskilling and unemployment and profits for trillionaires.
Get people to realize that it's not intelligence at work, it's just statistical modeling, and tackle the root of the problem!
@cstross AI = "Active Inbreeding", which I guess was the logical outcome of the software industry refusing measurement and a move out of the 3GL abstraction sphere. "Subject matter pollution" is inherent in 3GLs, and probably is a good term for how LLMs err; it could also be applied to what can happen at the genetic level in animal inbreeding.
#ActiveInbreeding
#LLMsTermedAI
