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I mean we all know that driving combustion engine cars is an absolutely terrible idea and incredibly inefficient from both a physics and a societal viewpoint. Yet, even most people that accept that fact don't go around breaking up contact with their families or boycotting any business that uses ICE cars.
Sometimes we can be loud about the terrible impacts of a technology and demand stricter regulation while also leveraging the benefits ourselves. Maybe we can do a little bit ourselves. Like not owning a car or at least an EV. Or by being considerate about token use and using smaller or even local models for the lighter tasks.
I already own an EV. And there definitely are people who are very vocal about the issues with ICE engine cars. Personally, I'd rather we go back to smaller communities within biking distance, but that's just me.
Living in biking distance of what you need is the dream. I do and I'm so happy about it. Yet I don't hate friends that live in the countryside and have 2 cars. I'm trying to convince them to switch to an EV but I understand their lives are different.
No one driving a car today was alive when the gasoline powered car was invented, and none of the people who were were able to anticipate the terrible consequences of mass adoption of the technology.
The people driving cars today are doing so because they were born into a society that had already completely reorganized itself around cars, and that all but requires the ownership of a car to participate in that society. Meanwhile EVs have been prohibitively expensive to own for the majority of people (although that's finally changing) and so most people who wanted an alternative did not have one available.
Contrast that situation with AI where the terrible consequences are immediately obvious, cheap alternatives already exist and have for centuries, and the "benefits" of using AI are only marginal at best and only in some niche circumstances.
Unfortunately regular Internet search has gotten terrible and most " search engines" are showing AI results so it's basically impossible to avoid. And I am missing nuance in conversations about AI contributions to software that consider "did you use Fable or an open weights model running on your hardware".