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Social media and generative AI can have a large climate impact – here’s how to reduce yours. (theconversation.com)

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is bullshit deflection. Nothing we do as individual users will affect the corporate-level waste.

Sure, if an overwhelming majority of users quit, then they'd stop... But you can't even get that many people to agree that the world is round.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Right? I was going to say...we aren't the ones who NEED our own nuclear power plants to run ai

As for the overwhelming majority of users quitting...none of us opted in. We're being forced. They won't stop because of this.

I saw we should all do the opposite and use it so damn much (free trials whatever) that they lose so much so hard that THEY have to opt out. Sucks for the planet, but honestly nothing we do will change anything. Companies gonna company