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LeRoy Neiman (American, 1921–2012)

Delacroix's Tiger, 1977

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I need to make more friends in STEM so that I can be that normal friend who listens to them complain about some science problem they're trying to solve and jokingly proposes a really simple or mundane solution that they can go Wait, Say That Again to and help them solve this problem cutting-edge experts has been trying to solve for years by "just cutting it in half" or something

Y'all I know that when so-called AI generates ridiculous results it's hilarious and I find it as funny as the next guy but I NEED y'all to remember that every single time an AI answer is generated it uses 5x as much energy as a conventional websearch and burns through 10 ml of water. FOR EVERY ANSWER. Each big llm is equal to 300,000 kiligrams of carbon dioxide emissions.

LLMs are killing the environment, and when we generate answers for the lolz we're still contributing to it.

Stop using it. Stop using it for a.n.y.t.h.i.n.g. We need to kill it.

Sources:

The Conversation

AI’s excessive water consumption threatens to drown out its environmental contributions

Artificial intelligence promises revolutionary solutions to global challenges, but the water costs to produce and power AI hardware and infr

Nature

The carbon impact of artificial intelligence - Nature Machine Intelligence

The part that artificial intelligence plays in climate change has come under scrutiny, including from tech workers themselves who joined the

nature.com

Generative AI’s environmental costs are soaring — and mostly secret

First-of-its-kind US bill would address the environmental costs of the technology, but there’s a long way to go.

hey! donate to uk trans charities today because it’s gonna be a rough one

I have this day marked in my calendar

every time I do a web search, right at the top I have AI info dumping on me

just give me the top result please

let's all go out and buy pink refreshing citrusy fruity sexually arousing drinks

Me: *stubs my toe* "AH FUCK!"

Mass of quivering flesh that's been growing in my cabinet and slowly feeding off my suffering until it develops sentience: *takes first breath*

EXCUSE ME, my boobs are down here. Look at them when I speak to you. 💢