DrDystopia

joined 10 months ago
[–] DrDystopia@lemy.lol 4 points 1 day ago

I need my gratis dose of Heinz Beanz! (In a rich tomato suace (High Protein))

[–] DrDystopia@lemy.lol 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You’re focusing on their use of AI

No, I'm focusing on the hypocrisy of calling it green. A lot of other people are focusing on the AI tech though.

They’re a non-profit company that gives 100% of their profits

That's not how non-profit profits work. 100% of the surplus might be invested in green causes but that's after operating costs, salaries and a plethora of minor expense posts are handled using their profit/income.

It’s hardly greenwashing.

If legitimizing polluting technology by saying we're doing such a great job at combating pollution isn't green washing, perhaps I've misunderstood the term? It was certainly used against the billionaires flying to climate conferences, their argument was that they did such an important job for the environment that they should be able to fly private jets to the meetings. Others called it a green washing of their personal travel arrangements.

Your complaint just doesn’t make sense.

That's OK, I'm not too bothered about being understood by every single person I come in contact with. Sometimes the divide between worldviews is simply too big to try to bridge.

[–] DrDystopia@lemy.lol 7 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Nonsense. I run my own home hosted Ollama AI server 24/7. But I don't claim it to be green tech in any way. Talk about strawman, I don't see any claims regarding the worth of AI, perhaps I missed it?

Fun fact, smaller model LLMs can run on Pi5 at not untolerable speed. Could work on solar I suppose.

[–] DrDystopia@lemy.lol 11 points 1 day ago

I don't want them to greenwash AI. So as long as a self-professed green company provides a claimed green AI I don't agree with them.

[–] DrDystopia@lemy.lol 2 points 1 day ago

I don't want them to greenwash AI. So as long as a self-professed green company provides a claimed green AI I don't agree with them.

[–] DrDystopia@lemy.lol 14 points 1 day ago (9 children)

I don't accept AI implementation as a green product, and when the "green AI" they advertise is a special, low complexity opt-IN model I feel like I'm being bamboozled on two separate levels.

[–] DrDystopia@lemy.lol 16 points 1 day ago (14 children)

I'm looking forward to the Ecosia AI being implemented in Google Chrome so I can continue to boycott both companies.