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These charges are complete bullshit but it's not a bad thing to have one political party investigate TF out of the other one and bring charges ASAP when they're in power! That's their job!

Both parties will say the other one is corrupt and oftentimes they're both right! If there's laws being violated, prosecute TF out of them as quickly as possible.

The whole concept of we're not going to investigate or bring charges against our political enemies (who have committed wrongdoing) is bullshit. The only way for "a country to heal" is to prosecute the criminals and malfeasants.

And since they're politicians serving the public, their punishments should be the max! 😤

His comments were ~~generated~~ transcribed into text via a speech recognition AI.

For billboards and large posters, their art is scaled up via ~~generative~~ scaling AI (literally the same exact thing that generates the art he's talking about).

CGI effects in their movies? Generative AI

Masking when placing characters in different settings? Generative AI (though if they're using older versions of photo editing tools it could still be the old magic wand algorithm 🤷).

Removing stuff from a background after the art has been drawn? Generative AI.

Their grammar is going to get checked by generative AI. Whether it's emails or marketing or simple Word docs... They're all using generative AI now.

Their games and software will all be developed using generative AI (I guarantee it!).

Perhaps he should be a bit more specific? Or are they literally going to sequester their employees into caves to perform their work?

Generative AI is everywhere and in everything. It has been for over a decade! It predates "AI bros" and ChatGPT. The only difference is that in the past two years it's gotten some powerful new applications and a whole heck of a lot of marketing.

If you're thinking, "that's bullshit. This AI is different." You're wrong. OpenCV came out in the year 2000 (25 years ago!). Modern image generators are just image classifiers (like OpenCV) run in reverse (being trained with a whole lot more data and some newer developments in computer science algorithms). Also, GPUs finally have enough memory to pull it off.

Insert meme: "I'm using generative AI every day, right now?" "Always have been."

In case you don't get what I'm saying: "Generative AI" is way too ambitious a term. Be more specific!

Does anyone have the data on the total number of data centers that were being built over time? I'm not convinced that AI is causing that many more data centers to be built. From everything I've read, is just that they're putting more GPUs into them.

WTF? Have you ever been in a data center? They don't release anything. They just... Sit. And blink lights while server fans blow and cooling systems whir, pumping water throughout.

The cooling systems they use aren't that different from any office building. They're just bigger, beefier versions. They don't use anything super special. The Pfas they're talking about in this article are the same old shit that's used in any industrial air conditioner.

For the sake of argument, let's assume that a data center uses 10 times more cooling as an equivalently sized office building. I don't know about you, but everywhere that I've seen data centers, there's loads and loads of office buildings nearby. Far more than say 10 for every data center.

My point is this: If you're going to be bitching about pfas and cooling systems, why focus on data centers (or AI, specifically) when there's all these damned office buildings? Instead, why don't we talk about work from home policies which would be an actual way to reduce pfas use.

This article... Ugh. It's like bitching that electric car batteries can catch fire, pretending that regular cars don't have a much, much higher likelihood of catching fire and there's several orders of magnitude more of them.

Are Pfas a problem? Yes. Are data centers anywhere near the top 1000 targets for non-trivially reducing their use? No.

Aside: This is just like the articles bitching about data center water use... Data centers recycle their water! They have a great big intake when they're done being built but then they're done. They only need trivial amounts of water after that.

It's ok: Google and all other ad-supported search is about to go the way of the dinosaur as soon as local AI search catches on. When your own PC runs a search for you, it basically googles on your behalf and you never see those ads.

It's going to change everything.