imagine the modern internet like a school yard of a very large school during recess, and it has just snowed.

Now imagine having ssh on port 22 as you a wearing a bright red wooly cap and standing in the middle of the yard jumping up and down and waving hands.

I don’t see a reason to worry about that. Only matters if the machine is alreay compromised, and then it doesn’t matter either.

It’s so easy to missunderstand and get missunderstood when communication in text with people who don’t know you :)

This could easily have devolved into a shouting match, but it seems this time we managed to “get the corner” (as in “not fly off the road in a corner”) as we say in germany.

That slide is pretty good, i hope they listen to you, but if not, you’ll be able to show it to them in a year and have a very satisfying “i told you so” monent :D

no, i’m “nitpicking” because you used an (in my view) flawed comparison to wave away criticism on gen-AI use.

If the company that sells/rents tools to me is in fact “doing evil” then I (or anyone) am complicit in that evil if i just keep giving them money.

You might not agree to that, but smarter people than me have written books on morals and ethics and this is a pretty basic example.

Also: you are being fooled by the gen-AI companies and subsidizing their product. Anthropic for example has just made a new investment deal that will keep the company afloat for about 18 months (best guess, no one can predict long term energy prices currently) that amounts to a burn rate (including profit they make) of about 5 billion $ per month.
This is not a sustainable product / business.

Not to mention the fact that many large Datacenters have started to rent gas turbines generators they park outside to supply additional power.

The point of all this anti gen-AI talk is to make people aware of the impact these companies are having and to do the only thing we can do to resist this development, and that is to not use it, not pay it and point out to others the problems with them.

I did not blame any technology, i just pointed out that your carpenter<->Power Drill comparison is flawed.

If you have issues with this please go tell a carpenter to use a manual screwdriver and not a power drill and see if they say yes or throw it at you, thank you <3

I wonder what the carpenter would say if he had to pay 200€ subscription for his power drill, and and the Power Drill factory would take images of everything he creates and start giving his plans and blueprints to large factories to mass produce his things for cheap.

And what if he found out that his electricity bill was 50% more than a couple years ago because of the all the Power drill Factories, and they would like to start burning more coal and gas to power them, undoing years of progress in environmental protections.

It’s not too late for you, you still have a chance. run!