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joe@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•AI data center project secretly sucked 29 million gallons of water over 15 months before detected by residents complaining about low water pressure — officials refuse to fineEnglish
1·13 days agoCalm down, pal. No one said that at all. If all you have is strawmen maybe sit this one out.
joe@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•AI data center project secretly sucked 29 million gallons of water over 15 months before detected by residents complaining about low water pressure — officials refuse to fineEnglish
1·13 days agoThat context isn’t important at all, unless you’re implying that the correction is wrong or misleading.
I think it’s useful to bring attention to the fact that this isn’t water being used by the data center for operations, but for its construction.
And let’s be real, there’s a ridiculous amount of misinformation surrounding co-called “AI”, both pro and con. Someone providing context and clarification isn’t something I’d complain about. (With the caveats above.)



This is something I don’t think people are internalizing about (agentic) AI. Its disruption doesn’t stem from its “intelligence”, but in its persistence. We are very rapidly approaching an era of infinite agency, but our entire society is designed around people having limited agency. Everything assumes that a vast majority of people won’t bother to use their agency. Sending complaints to local government agencies, waiting in line for concert tickets, starting an online business, submitting pull requests, etc.; they all assume most people won’t bother; they’ll choose to use their limited agency on something else. Agentic AI will blow that all up; you’ll be able to point the AI at a goal on your behalf and not think about it again.
AI slop will hypothetically vanish as AI improves, but that doesn’t do anything to address the fact that we’ll all have effectively infinite agency.