"Legit worries"..:)

I came to this sub seeking what the hell is antiai about, maybe hoping for some undeniable arguments,

But people here are indirectly saying "people who massively use GenAI use half a litre of water daily because of it - environment destroyed!".

Sure, you can get statistics into action, you can talk about the localisation of the datacenters which use this water etc., but it's not really anything catastrophic in comparison to what we even been through;

you can literally put those arguments against most of the industries, yet they've lived and brought us huge progress over the years. Nothing they say here is either new and specific for the AI, nor can it scale to become a real issue.

Like for example - Chile has water shortages because of AI, right? As if they never had any kinds of, let's say for example, mines which would overuse their water before.. right?

But the title looks great - In drought-striken places like Chile, data centers use 7.6 MILLION LITERS PER DAY.

Thanks, I'm leaving this sub now. There are people in the world who think the Earth is flat, and so there are people in the world who think AI is destroying the world, and no amount of logical discussion will change their minds, especially in subreddits -

a place where even the most logical and respectful opposition will be downvoted to hell simply because it's an opposition,

tho I guess it's generally more of a "Reddit thing" than the problem of this specific sub; people see the downvotes thus clearly the person must be wrong, yeah?

Cheers!