Pledges coming from proprietary software companies mean nothing

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/15/24157496/microsoft-ai-carbon-footprint-greenhouse-gas-emissions-grow-climate-pledg

Get behind the community that is _really_ fighting to curb climate change:

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Climate was only cool while you could buy fake carbon credits to make up lies about responsible computing at scale. Now we save the world with AI once again. Next year, compute on mars, true planetary scale! Cloud? We’re doing Starsystem now!

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Climate was only cool in the 1700’s…

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Lol

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You forgot quantum! We’re developing super duper plants that suck the carbon out of the atmosphere harder than a crack whore and make everything great for everyone (with money)!!!

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@gencha
Carbon credits weren’t, and are not fake
They just never did anything.

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That sounds valid. I was thinking about the fact that most carbon credits are generated from deforestation reduction projects that renew yearly.

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pledges coming from any capitalist for-profit company mean nothing.

unless the pledge is cutting costs or making line go up or laying off a third of your employees.

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Nois aqui ensinando essa turminha kkkk

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Pledges coming from capitalists means nothing.

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They just need “unless we can make more money in the short term by not doing it” appended to them. So, yes, they mean nothing.

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In a sense maybe it’s a good thing this big AI hype is here so prematurely. People will misuse it and rely too heavily on it, and it will fuck everything up, since it can’t really do what these execs and the media want to claim it can do. So it will fuck up and hopefully people will learn from that. And we can start seeing products advertised as AI free.

And then when AI finally does get to the point where it is capable of doing these amazing things, we will be more careful at that time. Maybe. Hopefully.

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@jocarren @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social code should not be completly #AI free: “RTMF!!1” “AI, Sir”

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But hey, they’re still good, they have that green leaf in their windows settings. They’re good, right?

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