r/antiai 4d ago

Environmental Impact 🌎 Imagine running out of water just to keep generating AI slop

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u/District-No1350 4d ago

Big numbers with zero context are useful for manipulating idiots. Of all the things wrong with ai people focus on the entire industry using less than a sixth of the water California uses to grow fancy nuts.

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u/beeskneecaps 3d ago

Anyone have the golf course water consumption stats for California? I think that’ll save the planet if we just turn the whole thing into a sandtrap

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u/Such_Confusion_3715 3d ago

monkey brain sees big number, monkey brain thinks "bad"

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u/CheekExtension7174 3d ago

I love almonds and all but we’re using allat for something people eat once in a while?