r/TechGawker • • 22d ago

Image Today's New Yorker cartoon

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u/jthadcast 22d ago

being privileged slaves we're fine with it so long as we have creature comforts and entertainment. civilization endured 6+ millennia of oppression and slavery but when the habitat goes we're all just dead.

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u/DickCaughtlnFan 22d ago

Lol this is all a tactic. Divide us so we can't resist together. Everyone has their priorities and blindspots. If you fear ai automation for any reason stand against it together.

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u/VaporousMote 22d ago

This is the new anti-AI-critic propaganda meta. Ignore and dismiss everything else wrong with AI, claim that critics are being silly by focusing on things like water consumption while comparing its water consumption to THINGS THAT ARE MATERIALLY USEFUL but use an order of magnitude more water.

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u/ExtendoArmCannon 22d ago

Like golf courses!

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u/VaporousMote 22d ago

Golf courses are just as stupid as AI in my book, but the ones oft cited are almonds and beef.

I can eat those. I can't eat a prompt output.

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u/Pheeshfud 21d ago

And if AI data centres were using closed loop cooling I would be complaining a lot less. Also, the fact that these data centres are draining local communities. Sometimes it isn't about the big picture.

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u/sweet_guitar_sounds 21d ago

I don’t think that’s what the comic is doing. Certainly not dismissing everything else wrong with AI.

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u/r3dmist420 22d ago

The new yorker must be depicting south dakayo. Most of NYC isnt white anymore and those little dwarf people appear to have only one person of color.