The environmental impacts are real and substantial, though still on the same scale as video streaming which didn’t get the same reaction, so that’s not the whole story.
And both are dwarfed by the meat industry. Be fair to become vegetarian and continue using AI a bit.
I just had AI rewrite two pages of text from 1st person to 3rd person to use in different marketing material.
I had AI reformat text I’d pulled from a PDF that had weird line breaks.
In both cases, it wasn’t doing any “writing” but the end result was AI assisted.
Its a glorified spellchecker, treat it like one.
I use it to help me make my personal bash scripts better. I like it for that. I can make a super basic bash script, this helps me make them better!
nah, I’ll just right click on the words with the red line under them and correct the words
I prefer to use it for really basic copy paste but with one variable changed. (Last time it still managed to screw this up by forgetting the plural)
I limit my usage to a minimum as while it’s proper usage, it probably runs on data centers that makes everyone unhappy
And for art, I don’t. While I could try to get it to give me advice, I don’t think it’s worth the cost
The environmental impacts are real and substantial, though still on the same scale as video streaming which didn’t get the same reaction, so that’s not the whole story.
And both are dwarfed by the meat industry. Be fair to become vegetarian and continue using AI a bit.