not mine, but my grandmother’s last dog was picked up by animal control so often they knew her and the dog by name and I think pitied her attempts to keep the dog contained. Mixed breed of multiple herding dogs, scaled her six-foot fences with ease, dug tunnel networks like ww2 prisoners, and generally wanted to be anywhere but in her yard and was seen half way across chicago at various points. Great dog but serious case of poor fit for the environment, that dog needed acres to roam.

I could buy this premise except:

where’s all the small mom and pop AI that’s doing good? where’s ANY AI that’s doing good?

seems to me the tech is beholden to those shits because they have the moral depravity to use it in all the ways it’s damaging our society (fucking up developers, fucking up kids, undressing innocent people, talking them into suicide or helping them plan violence - ALL REAL WORLD EXAMPLES) - where as anyone else building this tech would stop and ask: why are we building this, what possible good could come of it?

THE EXISTING WATER USAGE KEEPS US ALIVE YOU FUCKING MORON.

And many of those muni water supplies are at risk. And why should they have to pay more for water because some asshole wants to evaporate MILLIONS OF GALLONS computing inference shit?

do you have any fucking point?

This entire discourse is lost on your because you’re enamored with something and don’t care about the effects.

Those figures are from the sources YOU shared…

yes, and they’re A HUGE PROBLEM, not the insignificant rounding error you make it sound like. You idiots are consuming enormous amounts of potable water from muni supplies and letting it fucking evaporate, you smooth brained dolt.

I’m a leftist liar.

if you’re a leftist you’re the shittiest leftist I’ve ever encountered. There’s nothing emotional involved aside from your sycophancy for AI kiddo.

Oh and my amazement that you’re so stupid to continue

whoopy, yet another threat surface to deal with, you think is a good thing?

you really are fucking dumb

you really are deluded!

it hasn’t delivered any of that, and it’s eating WAY more potable water than your measly figures.

you’re simply in the cult and can’t see anything outside, so assume everyone else is deluded. I provided you with a raft of links illustrating the problem and you call me ignorant.

Back up your garbage position with evidence if it’s so easy!

Are you dating a bot? Is that why this is so painful?

You’re being trained to defend something that will never love you lol

AI too. The power to build out all those datacenters isn’t coming from new generation unless it’s methane belching shit like X’s colossus and that’s just offsetting the shitty garbage into the atmosphere instead of your power bill. And Trump is very much neck deep in AI, crypto and all the attendant bubble garbage.

But I’m guessing you haven’t actually looked at any numbers yourself…

sure thing sparky. you still haven’t replied to SHOW ME ONE GOOD UPSIDE THAT JUSTIFIES IT. keep changing the subject.

https://www.slashgear.com/1994908/meta-ai-data-centers-affecting-water-supply-in-multiple-states/

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/07/1249592906/energy-water-ai-climate-tech

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kensilverstein/2026/01/11/americas-ai-boom-is-running-into-an-unplanned-water-problem/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0043135426005488

https://time.com/article/2026/06/03/ai-global-water-resources-un-report/

so self hosted avoids all that?

no it just distributes it and makes it less effective, and, you still have to train it, where the massive portion of power and water is used.

and it’s probably still built on stolen everything.

show me one good upside from all those downsides that justifies it.

HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO REPEAT MYSELF?

It’s not going away because twats and useful idiots assume it’s inevitable because someone with a RAFT of financial incentives has convinced you it’s inevitable and you believed them.

you’re worried about improbable hypotheticals while the whole thing is the issue and it’s cooking the planet

I don’t think there are enough deluded to represent a viable market for them. sure, there are some people who are woefully dependent on the shit, but they need a substantial chunk of the population to be enamored and it’s not there. if anything what I’m seeing is that people are revolted by it more and more each day.

oh I see plenty of NEWS about AI that’s negative, but it’s not ‘journalists trying to make people afraid’ it’s people incensed because there’s a data center making them deaf, raising their water and power costs, or the entire technology making components more expensive.

trying to make you afraid of AI lol… get fucked

show me one good upside from all those downsides that justifies it.

VERY mainstream media outlet is trying to make you afraid of AI,

I don’t see this at all; I see them hyping it or letting it slide.

I worry that they’re trying to make it such a gigantic part of the economy it’ll be ‘too big to fail’ and end up on the taxpayer’s bill

Those already dependant or addicted, will pay.

I disagree; they’ve been gorging on the cheap slop buffet for so long, when they realize it costs real money they’re gonna revolt - ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY REALIZE IT’S STILL FULL OF HALLUCINATIONS lol.

Evidence:

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/11/openai-mulls-slashing-prices-ahead-of-competition-from-anthropic-wsj.html

poor baby can’t even formulate a comeback lol

oh and btw, FUCK YOU for equating AI SLOP to FOSS software. That’s a shit take of mammoth proportions and you should shove it up your ass sideways, it’s absolute garbage.

Yeah, we should stop mislabeling LLMs as AI. I have yet to see anything, ANY THING, that would justify the artist crushing, soul sucking, component costs-skyrocketing, child undressing, suicide prompting, power guzzling, water draining and manifold other garbage that is intrinsic on this ‘age of AI’.

It’s snake oil, shitware and techbros burning the fucking planet and destroying entire industries because they’re so fucking sure their roided up elizabots are gonna change humanity - and can’t comprehend, it certainly is changing humanity, FOR THE WORSE.

yeah, we only created the garbage, how could we ever turn the garbage off?

I mean, with shit takes like that, geeze, guess we’re really fucked

Mmm… better that all AI fail.

yes. I don’t think they still feature this vulnerability.

but it was so bad, and such a stupid thing to cheap out on - I’ll never trust the brand.