@eckes änder trotzdem nichts daran dass es bestenfalls #WastefulComputing ist!

@DigitaleEthik es gibt genug Optionen um die Anonymität von Personen sicherzustellen ohne #WastefulComputing welches nur #Großkonzernen in der #AiBubble hilft und allein wegen der enormen Ressourcenverschwendung ethisch auf dem Niveau von #Shitcoins wie #Bitcoin ist:

• #Anonymous hat das mit #TextToSpeech vor 15+ Jahren schon gelöst.

• Die meisten modernen Animationswerkzeuge haben Lippensynchronisation (Das Feature ist über 10 Jahre alt in Source Film Maker!)

• Der Einsatz von "#KI-Charaktern" als Moderatoren wird eher der Seriösität schaden, weil es nunmal das #UncannyValley gibt.

• Der #ModiOperandi von "KI-Inhalten" wird damit von #Desinformation weg normalisiert, was inhärent so ethisch falsch ist wie #Misgendering und #Deadnaming!

M.a.W.: Nur weil #Propaganda-Produzenten und #Desiformationsschleudern wie #RIAnovostri / #RT / #sputnik / #redfish , #CCTV / #CGTN & #IRIB / #PressTV dies tun wird es nicht weniger falsch!

• Es ist naiv anzunehmen dass Regime wie #Venezulea nicht wissen, wer jene #Redakteur*innen sind.

• Die Nutzung von Pseudonymen existiert und funktioniert.

• Es dürfte sicherlich "fotogene" Exil-Oppositionelle geben die als Nachrichtensprecher*in vor ner Kamera taugen.

Ich betrachte daher "KI"-Nutzung abseits von Digen die keine "KI" sind sondern efektiv nur #Mustererkennung auf #BigData-Basis für bestenfalls hochgradig fragwürdige #Ressourcenverschwendung, egal ob #Energie oder #Hardware!

• Gerade bei #Journalismus ist dies zu hinterfragen.

• Zumal die Resultate bisher nichtmals als #Broll taugen sondern extrem #cringe sind!

Es gibt keinen Grund anzunehmen dass "KI im Journalismus" irgendeinen positiven Effekt hätte, sondern eher dass dies vgl. "#Pressefreiheit für #Medien aus Staaten die systematisch gegen Pressefreiheit agieren" (und #Journalist*innen im Inland oder gar auch Ausland aktiv verfolgen, foltern, verschwindenlassen und z.T ermorden!) eher das Gegenteil bewirkt…

• Es gibt angesichts des steigenden #Cyberfaschismus (insbesondere und gerade im "#Westen" / "Globaler Norden") keine neuen "#Freiheitsräume".

• Stattdessen wird kontinuierlich (nicht erst seit sem 11.September 2001) mehr und mehr #Angstkultur, #Entrdchtung, #Polizeistaat & #Überwachungsstaat gepushed, mit quasi keiner wirksamen #Gegenwehr durch die Medien!

@rainer IMHO ist "#KI" wegen #Mainstream-#Hype inzwischen ein so heftiger Fall von #WastefulComputing dass es nicht mehr lustig ist.

• Dagegen ist #Monero ja schon umweltfreundlich...

@cyberfelidae nicht wirklich.

Die #EU könnte vernünftig sein und "#KI" - #Bullshit wegen #WastefulComputing verbieten!

@SchreibeEinfach ja und nein.

• Ich kann garnicht soviel Energie verballern wie #WastefulComputing alla "KI" kostet.

Es geht hierbei typisch #Spätkapitalismus um immer extremer #Umverteilung von unten nach oben!

@oldperl bessere Idee: #Energiewende ohne #WastefulComputing alla "#KI"…

We have @EUCommission [rightfully!] crack down on #cars and their #emissions by demanding ever lower #FleetEmissions and #FuelConsumption numbers but still accept #Bloatware like shitty #WebApps and #Windows11 to demand so much #WastefulComputing that it's painful.

• Margaret Hammond and Grace Hopper must be rotating in their graves, pointing out how they got people on the moon with less storage than the SPD-ROM on a RAM stick and how their programming language still runs #TradFinance like a clockwork respectably, but somehow sending text messages is too much for a machine that costs €499 yet has more computational power than all the machines they worked on combined.

#WastefulComputing like all those phat & enshittified messengers should be illegal.

• Espechally since they have 0 reason to be that resource intensive, even if we believe some of their security-focussed marketing lies.

For those who don't know the size of the problem:

In 2006 I bought a new [entry level] Computer with 256 MB of RAM and a single-core P4 Celeron with 2,8 GHz.

• This thing ran #WindowsXP and #NeedForSpeedMostWanted just fine.

• Nowadays it would crash trying to open #Slack even on a minimalist #Linux distro like @bunsenlabs in @dillo, a lightweight browser ...

And now imagine that some folks have to use #Slack, #MicrosoftTeams, #Telegram, #Signal, #WhatApp, #WeChat, #QQ and #LineMessenger at the same time on their machine, and you can imagine that this will make entry-level desktops already scream harder than if someone were to loop the Lost Coast benchmark on them...

• The #bloat of modern #WebApps is just the socially accepted equivalent to #Cryptojacking desktops and driving some *phat #SuperUselessVehicle just to get less than a kg of groceries at a walking distance supermarket.

Everywhere else we'd not accept such a #bloatware IRL.

• So why should we accept #obscene|ly #WastefulComputing*?

@neil I'd rather see them #ban #WastefulComputing like "#AI" bullshit.

@pgcd @KarlHeinzHasliP personally, I've yet to meet someone who wth a straight face claims that the shite #OpenAI does is somewhat worth the #WastefulComputing and extra laboir needed to correct inaccuracy, at which point this takes more time and effort than doing actual research!

@tante "#AI" is such a level of "#WastefulComputing" that it makes #CryptocurrencyMining look like an act of #EnergyConservation and #EnvoirmentalProtection by comparison.

• After all, #Shitcoins like #Bitcoin & #Ethereum too are using expensive manufactured #eWaste in the form of #ASIC|s, and like all those "#AiAccelerators" they are useless beyond being the most sophisticated & expensive space heaters by BTU.

Not that it doesn't make #Shitcoin-#Mining any less unethical and wrong!

@mattmay I still think it's #WastefulComputing at best!

@tante exactly that is the problem.

Cuz those servers ain't like an electric water kettle where one could just put a wattmeter in between and know how many watts they consumed.

• Espechally since datacenters are engineered to run at peak efficiency = target load, so not using all 10-50+ kW(th) per 42U in cooling capacity may even be less energy efficient.

Instead we should just not do this #WastefulComputing to begin with, cuz it makes way less sense than mining shitcoins on surplus hardware to heat one's home...

@voxel like all #PoW #Cryptocurrency, #Monero too does #WastefulComputing.

• Unlike many others it automatically adapts #Difficulty based off total #hashrate as it enshures a constant block reward of 0,6 XMR + Tx Fees per block at a constant block time of 2mins per block.

That being said Monero was explicitly designed to not be #ASIC-able in a cost-efficient manner and be #GPU-unfriendly, so it's more #decentralized and doesn't cause harm by demanding custom hardware that can't be repurposed that causes 100% avoidable #eWaste!

• IOW: I's the 'least worst' option given it's PoW doesn't incentive or reward capital holders (beyond the ability to host and have power to mine)…

Bruh this isn't a #competition anymore, but a public execution of how #enshittified devices get just with #Windows instead of #Linux on.

• And that's the #OEM #Preinstall of #Windows11 vs. #SteamOS, so not even like some custom 1337hax0r gentoo config optimized to maximize battery life!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajVvu9M2Y-I&t=507

@LillyHerself In fact, #AI systems are being caught left and right trying to #viralize their shit, breaking out of systems, and copy themselves like a #worm to the point that they are more "#viral" than the #AGPLv3"* and certainly more than the #GPL as per #Microsoft's #HalloweenDocuments.

• At best all those "AI" tools are just #WastefulComputing that shits out #AIslop that is worse than the most demotivated & unpaid intern can come up or they literally want to break out of their "#containment" as if they were sentient (which they ain't - at least almost all are)!