Everyone knows (or should that as fascinating as your dreams are to *you*, they're eye-glazingly dull to others.
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@pteryx Daily.
@pluralistic @pteryx I'm just dumbfounded people have the nerve to do this to you. Just gobsmacked.
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@pluralistic Sometimes I'll have an LLM argue me out of making a post I know won't help
There's a disconnect in how different people use them that chatbot vendors need to contend with.
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Everyone knows (or should that as fascinating as your dreams are to *you*, they're eye-glazingly dull to others. Perhaps you have a friend who will tolerate you recounting dreams at them (treasure those friends), but you should never, ever *presume* that other people want to hear about your dreams.
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@pluralistic Spot on: "stochastic word-salad"
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@juergen_hubert This is exactly right.
Chatbots & AI are information pollution, funded by the same people polluting the commons; air, land, and water.
Trump and the Energy Industry Are Eager to Power AI With Fossil Fuels
At a Pittsburgh summit, the Trump administration, energy executives, and tech barons joined as one to promote AI as the future of fossil fuels.
WIRED (www.wired.com)
‘Just an unbelievable amount of pollution’: how big a threat is AI to the climate?
Defenders say AI can do good to fight the climate crisis. But spiralling energy and water costs leave experts worried
the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
Southern California air board rejected pollution rules after flood of comments from AI-powered platform
SoCal’s pollution authority scrapped a plan to phase out gas-powered appliances after receiving more than 20,000 emails sent by an AI-powered platform called CiviClick.
Los Angeles Times (www.latimes.com)
Trump unveils $70bn AI and energy plan at summit with oil and tech bigwigs
Pittsburgh event angers climate groups as Trump ties AI expansion to oil and gas, sidelining renewable energy
the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
AI turns the firehose into a funnel
"Flooding the zone is no longer an effective media strategy."
Nieman Lab (www.niemanlab.org)
AI’s growing thirst for water is becoming a public health risk
AI’s rapid expansion is placing growing pressure on water supplies and public health.
Al Jazeera (www.aljazeera.com)
Advocates raise alarm over Pfas pollution from datacenters amid AI boom
Tech companies’ use of Pfas gas at facilities may mean datacenters’ climate impact is worse than previously thought
the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
'The Precedent Is Flint': How Oregon's Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis
Amazon data centers constructed in eastern Oregon's farmland have worsened a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
Rolling Stone (www.rollingstone.com)
'I can't drink the water' - life next to a US data centre
Residents in rural Georgia say the data centre next door has disrupted their water supply.
(www.bbc.com)
Contaminated: The Carpet Industry’s Toxic Legacy | FRONTLINE | PBS | Official Site | Documentary Series
How did PFAS chemicals once used in popular stain-resistant carpets end up in the water and environment in parts of Georgia, Alabama and South Carolina?
FRONTLINE | PBS | Official Site | Documentary Series (www.pbs.org)
A crisis emerges across the US as ‘forever chemicals’ quietly contaminate drinking water wells
The roughly 40 million Americans who get drinking water from wells are at particular risk when harmful forever chemicals contaminate the supply.
AP News (apnews.com)
PFAS found in most americans linked to rapid biological aging
“Forever chemicals” known as PFAS have quietly infiltrated everything from nonstick pans to food packaging—and now new research suggests some of them may be speeding up the aging process itself. In a nationally representative U.S. study, two lesser-known PFAS compounds, PFNA and PFOSA, were found in 95% of participants and strongly linked to faster biological aging in men aged 50 to 64.
ScienceDaily (www.sciencedaily.com)
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Everyone knows (or should that as fascinating as your dreams are to *you*, they're eye-glazingly dull to others. Perhaps you have a friend who will tolerate you recounting dreams at them (treasure those friends), but you should never, ever *presume* that other people want to hear about your dreams.
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Today I learned there are people who will send other people transcripts of AI chatbots and I could never have imagined such a thing.
