On Wed, Apr 1, 2026 at 8:33 AM Cayetano Santos <[email protected]> wrote: > > >mer. 01 avril 2026 at 12:21, gfp <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Am 01.04.26 um 13:27 schrieb gfp: > >> Am 01.04.26 um 06:33 schrieb Ian Eure: > >>> Gfp <[email protected]> writes: > >>> > >>>> Hi, > >>>> > >>>> 2. > >>>> What is your experience on AI? > >>> > >>> I personally consider it a harmful technology and choose never to use it. > >>> Its > >>> fundamental inefficiency means it consumes fresh water and emits carbon, > >>> both in > >>> staggering quantities. All the popular models are trained on infringing > >>> intellectual > >>> property, including Free Software. The hundreds of billions of dollars > >>> invested in this > >>> unprofitable technology is putting national economies at risk. It has > >>> already caused > >>> tremendous human suffering, and will continue to do so. > > > > Could you please provide more details on "tremendous human suffering" > > because I know too > > little about that. > > An interesting reference is the "Atlas of AI", by Kate Crawford. > > C.
Are we permitted to discuss non-free works on this GNU mailing list? Sure, wiki notes 'Crawford also compares "TrueTime" in Google's Spanner with historical efforts to control time associated with colonialism'. Written in 2021, and the best evidence presented for "tremendous human suffering" of modern AI. It is laughable for a Guix user to complain about water and energy consumption. Had technological progress not been retarded by a vocal minority for 50 years we would have unmeterable clean energy which could be used to desalinate the salt water covering two-thirds of our earth, and most of the world would not be hostage to a "tremendous human suffering" theocratic death cult. “Many were increasingly of the opinion that they’d all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.” - Douglas Adams. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
