• yucandu
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    2 days ago

    I’m using Opencode and the free Deepseek in it pretty much daily, how is this destroying the environment and increasing costs to other people?

    It feels like there’s a push on the internet against AI because it’s a largely western product.

    • Akh
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      2 days ago

      Look up datacenter water usage and utility pricing - not to mention so many studies showing using AI makes you dumb and unable to think critically.

    • Rothe@piefed.social
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      Because you are using exponentially more energy than you did before AI. And all for something that at best could have been made without AI, and at worst is completely frivolous and useless.

      And this at a point in human history where we desperately need to cut down on energy usage.