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diff --git a/wiki/ai-threatens-humanity.md b/wiki/ai-threatens-humanity.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3f781168a728b3468b361dfe75282192d1c74eec --- /dev/null +++ b/wiki/ai-threatens-humanity.md @@ -0,0 +1,64 @@ +# AI threatens humanity +Written by MESYETI on the 2nd of June 2026 + +We have all heard about how profitable generative AI is. As one example, OpenAI isn't +making any profit, despite making billions in revenue. It's easy to see why, they give +billions free access to generative AI, the most bloated software to ever enter the home, +software that requires an extremely high end computer to run, the kind you would find +in a data center. + +# Data centers +Data centers are one big reason to be against generative AI. Before I say anything +about them, I want to address something I once heard from a pro-AI person. They claimed +that people against AI data centers are really just against data centers. Data centers +do a lot more than just run AI, they run the vast majority of services you see on +the internet. This website is being served to you by a data center somewhere in western +Europe. While data centers certainly are harmful, they're usually doing some lightweight +work outside of AI, which is web hosting. Websites are easy to host, you could even +host a website on a microcontroller, as long as you don't get too much traffic. AI is +far more demanding, and it's a service used by millions. You can see why so many new +data centers are being built. + +These data centers have real harms. They are very loud for people living nearby [1], +worsening lives for people in those neighbourhoods. They also increase temperatures nearby [2]. +People who live near data centers don't deserve this. + +# Motivation +Data centers weren't my main argument, this is. You might have noticed my argument for +data centers isn't very good, feel free to contribute a better one at the +[git repository](https://codeberg.org/non-bloat-collective/website). + +Linking back to what I said about profit, is it not unusual that several corporations +are dumping billions into generative AI while not making a profit? A lot of decisions +made by corporations, good or bad, tend to be for the sake of profits. So what is +motivating these corporations to work so hard on developing AI? + +Workers are a big inconvenience to corporations. They have unions, they want livable +wages, they want holidays, they want to not work for too long in a day. What if they +could be replaced by a machine that works 24/7 and doesn't need a livable wage, and +won't give you any complaints about the conditions they work in? This is what these +corporations want out of their AIs. They're happy with sharing it with smaller companies +or businesses too, as shown by a Copilot ad where a business owner automates some work +(I will add a link here at some point). They want to replace the artists, the designers, +the software engineers, the composers, the producers, the writers. + +What skilled jobs are left? I can't think of any. (Please do let me know if you have +an answer) + +What jobs are even left? AI won't replace miners, or bin men. It probably won't +replace the shopkeepers in smaller shops. It won't replace cleaners. AI will never +touch these jobs where you need to physically be doing something. Some are being +automated by robots, but robots can only do so much. + +These services provided by corporations exist to harm you. If you try to think of +genuinely good non-evil uses of generative AI (ignoring the ethics of training data, +the issue of bloat, and the issue of replacing jobs), you wouldn't be able to think of +much. In fact, you wouldn't be able to think of any for the AI models that generate +images, video, and audio. They exist to be played with, or to replace a job, that's it. +Despite their limited uses, they are being worked on as much as LLMs by these corporations. +Nothing shows more clearly what the motivation for generative AI research is, it's +to make the higher ups in corporations richer by reducing the amount of workers. + +# References +- [1] <https://www.eesi.org/articles/view/communities-are-raising-noise-pollution-concernsabout-data-centers> +- [2] <https://www.forbes.com/sites/marshallshepherd/2026/05/19/new-evidence-data-centers-cause-hotter-weather/> diff --git a/wiki/ai-threatens-the-computer.md b/wiki/ai-threatens-the-computer.md index 3d64b63e4ab54b411bdfeac32f1bc3bd5d84b23a..2290eef1cc85bd7198027f48b20b91898cab656a 100644 --- a/wiki/ai-threatens-the-computer.md +++ b/wiki/ai-threatens-the-computer.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ # AI threatens the computer Written by MESYETI on the 1st of June 2026 This is the first of two articles for the non-bloat collective about generative AI and -its consequences, the next one will be "AI threatens us all". +its consequences, the next one will be "AI threatens humanity". This collective primarily exists to fight bloat, which is an issue that has been attacking the computer for a long while now. In this decade, the rise of generative AI has started diff --git a/wiki/pages.md b/wiki/pages.md index d4a9b1c9df4d302a433cc5b00d0fa51920cc15e3..d3c10ac4bf76646cfbcd86d3e66d2bca3f08280b 100644 --- a/wiki/pages.md +++ b/wiki/pages.md @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ - [Home](/index.html) ## Articles - [AI threatens the computer](/ai-threatens-the-computer.html) +- [AI threatens humanity](/ai-threatens-humanity.html) - [Good Software](/good-software.html) - [Non-bloat software list](/non-bloat-software-list.html)