AI datacentres consume ~8,000,000x more electricity per hour than the human brain 'artificial intelligence' is a misnomer because real intelligence requires mental capacity, AI just repeats what it was given Generative AI has consumed so much of the internet, books and human works yet is still unreliable; developers have to recycle AI responses back into training data
Generative AI has an unethical labour black market behind training models—workers in third-world countries are forced to work for hours with low wages labelling examples and data; some are forced to train safety filters and get traumatized for life by the inappropriate content they're forced to label Generative AI is 500x less efficient than the human brain (human brain takes 20-30 watts to run, a single AI data centre rack takes 15 kilowatts) The AI boom siphons out crucial resources like iron, silicon and cobalt from the electronics market and water from municipal and regional water supplies, causing food prices and bills to rise AI chatbots are estimated to consume a 750mL bottle of water for every query on average Towns have protested against companies like Microsoft installing data centres in their region that would increase cost of living and make living conditions such as temperature worser Generative AI produces significant amounts of inaccurate information that causes harm and wrongdoing (ChatGPT has killed ~10 people alone) Generative AI chatbots are a threat to child safety across platforms and require rigorous and exhaustive testing and resources to ensure safety Generative AI attempts to replace creativity with synthesised prediction of content, creating mass volumes of slop AI is not intelligent, as intelligence requires real mental capacity; 'artificial intelligence' is a misnomer Generative AI tools divide communities with deepfakes, fake stories, misinformation, disinformation and hate speech The AI boom is encouraging managers to replace useful workers with subpar performing AI causing millions of people to lose j*bs Generative AI is ruining trust in communities, institutions and businesses Vibe-coding generates unreliable code with dangerous security flaws and profound inefficiency Generative AI bloats computers and workflows, sometimes up to gigabytes or terabytes of consumption Companies use AI to process large amounts of data without consent or disclosure Generative AI destroys academic integrity by encouraging plagiarism and unproductive outsourcing AI companies are buying data—such as old books, websites, newspapers and arts—and permanently destroying them to use them in their training data Generative AI is still extremely unreliable—even after large amounts of the internet illegally scraped and fed into its training data—developers are having to recycle AI responses back into training data, creating lower-quality responses
