You’re spending a lot of effort complaining about your working conditions and then you see other people complain about their working conditions and your response is to get mad at THEM instead of the capitalist system and exploiting class that keeps them and you perilously employed and in your case seemingly while you’re sacrificing your body.
Pick the right targets for your invective. Instagram uploaders aren’t making your life worse.
I’m extremely excited to announce that huge companies never lie, especially when they self-publish these kinds of reports. Therefore, I trust this primary source fully.
edit: I don’t want to be misconstrued. I am not saying that their environmental report is a total lie or distortion of the truth, either. I’m saying you cannot over-rely on primary sources when reporting on them.
Your last paragraph implies that I’m naive for believing that complaining about it will make it go away, but I’ve done no such thing.
the market will sort that out
This is the naive statement.
I’m overtly anti-llm. I don’t think it’s dramatic at all to be so.
Enough has come out about how much power and water datacenters used to train and run it consume, people being driven insane by it, investors hoping to displace jobs with it, how over reliance on it diminishes your mental faculties, people from minors to adults using it to create deepfake porn of minors (literally it’s on lemmy rn https://lemmy.ml/post/32581009), its use in overt misinformation (particularly from our modern warzones and disaster areas), overt theft of writing and artistry to train these things, and last but not least: limitless spam.
I’m affected by most of those things indirectly, but the spam affects me daily. Can’t search for something on the net anymore without being served f-tier LLM-produced garbage.
So what are the good parts? Doesn’t seem like they outweigh these bad parts, whatever they are.
It’s working well to kill the one planet we have to live on. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mauna_Loa_CO2_monthly_mean_concentration.svg
What kind of place do you go to to find these things? Sometimes I get really lucky (see my post history about my wonderful new printer), but if I could increase my odds that would be cool.
The duration of software patents is completely absurd and in a just society would immediately be halved. That said, at any possible point I have totally ditched this ancient technology in favor of the vastly superior Opus.
Edit: just noticed this was published in 2017, which makes much more sense with my understanding of when mp3 was developed.
I’ve never played it because it just seems like Harvest Moon, which I played as a kid. Sure, maybe it’s refined the concept, but I already married my harvest boo when I was 12 years old. How could I dare to be unfaithful to her?