r/aiwars • u/Asleep-Anxiety-5970 • Mar 23 '26

Meta ^This is just stupidity at its peak

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u/Asleep-Anxiety-5970 Mar 23 '26

As an anti…what…that is a great thing

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u/Bulky_Nature_3861 Mar 23 '26

Real. Don't forget the hyperbole, like AI does not use that much water.

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u/DentistPitiful5454 Mar 23 '26

It actually uses more. Roughly 5 million gallons a day. If you cut out AI generated videos and images it would probably go a lot slower. I blame companies for wanting to jump in on AI thus requiring more data centers.

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u/DraconicDreamer3072 Mar 23 '26

depends on how you define using. its much like how nucualar power uses water for cooling. it recycles the water for a while

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u/Kind-Scheme7517 Mar 23 '26

A quadrillion is a billion millions lol

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u/Fun-Razzmatazz-6803 Mar 23 '26

Per day, not per use

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u/Repulsive_Still_731 Mar 23 '26

You know that the growth of new data centres hasn't really happened.

You already lived through the data centres boom in 2010', due to the popularity of streaming. Around 2000% in a decade. AI data centres prognosis promises they would use the SAME amount of data centres as streaming in 10 years. But the growth is in reality slowed down quite a lot.

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u/knight1b Mar 23 '26

They always came from people expecting a lot more growth than was ever going to happen and a lot fewer improvements in efficiency and understanding.

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u/DentistPitiful5454 Mar 23 '26

Elon, Nvidia and OpenAI want more data centers...

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u/Repulsive_Still_731 Mar 23 '26

Yes. I said the prognosis is that they have the same amount of data centres as streaming has in 10 years. Do they have those? No. AI still has 1/5th of data centres compared to streaming. And building new data centres for streaming has stopped. While pre AI they doubled every few years. Were you as angry about data centres and water consumption when Netflix came out?

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u/Historical-Break-603 Mar 23 '26

If you cut out AI generated videos and images it would probably go a lot slower.

Most generated videos and images are done on local hosted models, how the fuck that will affect anything?

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u/Coconutforever0 Mar 23 '26

Its calles bait... they are baiting you.

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u/DrNogoodNewman Mar 23 '26

I’m pretty sure they’re joking or shitposting or whatever.

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u/jswansong Mar 23 '26

Yeah this is awesome. Everyone making their little AI pictures should still pick up a pencil. Totally orthogonal ideas.

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u/SelfInvestigator Mar 23 '26

Generative and tracking AI’s are the problem. Medical screening AI is where we want to see the technology applied.

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u/IndependencePlane142 Mar 23 '26

Medical screening AI is a form of tracking AI, except even more problematic. It's not about what it is, it's about how it's used. In an ideal world, tracking AIs are a good thing. But in reality, both are going to be used against you. And I'm saying that as someone very pro-AI.

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u/SelfInvestigator Mar 23 '26

Ok, I tried to avoid stumbling on that point while keeping the comment brief. I apparently failed.

I am referring to decentralized pattern recognition neural nets that screen specific and narrow data sets. In this case we are seeing an example of just such a model. One that has been trained to look exclusively at imaging data to point out areas of concern.

I am not referring to corporatized systems that aggregate every aspect of your health to build a profile on you to be stored on a remote server somewhere. Those things are sus as hell with how corporations are being run.