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"Amazon, Microsoft and Google are operating datacentres that use vast amounts of water in some of the world’s driest areas and are building many more"

"SourceMaterial’s analysis identified 38 active datacentres owned by the big three tech firms in parts of the world already facing water scarcity, as well as 24 more under development."

theguardian.com/environment/20

The Guardian · Revealed: Big tech’s new datacentres will take water from the world’s driest areasBy Luke Barratt
#datacenter#tech#ia

→ ‘An Overwhelmingly Negative And Demoralizing Force’: What It’s Like Working For A Company That’s Forcing AI On Its Developers
aftermath.site/ai-video-game-d

“Bradley says his boss will just keep #prompting an AI for #images until he finds one he likes, and then the art team will have to #backwards #engineer the whole thing to make it work.

"He doesn't know that the important thing isn't just the end #result, it's the #journey and the questions you answer along the #way"”

aftermath.site · ‘An Overwhelmingly Negative And Demoralizing Force’: What It’s Like Working For A Company That’s Forcing AI On Its Developers - Aftermath'I have had conversations about AI in a professional context that make me want to walk into the sea'

On correct but wrong responses

For a research project I am currently evaluating all kinds of generative AI models (mostly for visual artifacts but some text based ones as well). There also is somewhat of a push at my employer to use those systems more because of "efficiency". So we all know that LLMs fabricate facts meaning: They produce text that is factually untrue. Happens a lot, those so-called hallucinations are a structural property of those kinds of systems. But I kept wondering about something else that I keep […]

tante.cc/2025/04/09/on-correct