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Sam Altman defends AI resource usage: Water concerns 'fake,' and 'humans use energy too' (www.cnbc.com)
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[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 hours ago

Sammy boy, that argument doesn't hold up for 10 seconds under any actual scrutiny. Yes, humans use energy too.

  1. Your datacenters are using a shitload more energy than they are hypothetically replacing in human work

  2. Even if it was a 1 to 1 replacement of human energy to AI energy expenditure, people don't eat electricity. We, in fact, have two entirely different sets of infrastructure for food vs electricity. If you just dump a bunch of extra load into one of the systems randomly, it's going to cause issues.

Fuck Altman and this shitty attempt at covering for his bad product.