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Is it a bird, is it superman? No, its Solarpunk Hermine! (i.imgur.com)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm not speaking about AI usage for a singular operation, but instead the massive scales of commercial AI products.

Last month, OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman finally admitted what researchers have been saying for years — that the artificial intelligence (AI) industry is heading for an energy crisis. It’s an unusual admission. At the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, Altman warned that the next wave of generative AI systems will consume vastly more power than expected, and that energy systems will struggle to cope. “There’s no way to get there without a breakthrough,” he said.

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I don't think there's a way to decouple current AI usage with its exploititive use under capitalism, and that usage is what I am criticizing. Right here and now, it is not serving solarpunk ideals by stealing from artists and regurgitating hands that don't make sense and solar panels that look like waves. Maybe the broader ethics could be explored in a post-capitalism, post intellectual property landscape, but that doesn't materially affect the world in which we live and make decisions today. And it is that circumstance that this post was made, not an idealized world.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

AI is not just OpenAI.

Sam Altman invested half a billion in a fusion company and needs people to believe AI requires big datacenters (which is false, but they need to convince the public of that). The trend is making smaller, lighter models that are as capable as the big ones. We do have footprints of Meta models, which are competitive with OpenAI's. We are nowhere near it being an energy problem.

I don’t think there’s a way to decouple current AI usage with its exploititive use under capitalism,

There is. Open source is a non-capitalist movement (technically it is anarchist and communist, despite most people participating in it not calling themselves that) and most models used today, right now, in our world, are open models. They don't do the headlines. I am pretty sure OP used StableDiffusion (the glitches on the panels look like it).

The post-capitalist world is being built today. Don't wait for it like an abstract and distant future society. The seeds of it were planted a while ago, they germinated and the roots are healthy. We should stop stomping on them by pretending they do not exist.