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Turns out at least twice
the twitter replies to their announcement are being very normal about it, as you can imagine
The estimates for how much energy is consumed per query vary wildly but the estimates for the google AI are like 3 watt hours which is like 25 queries per cent at residential energy prices.
sure AI techbros might be consuming all the planets energy and hastening the destruction of all life
but what if AI tech bros also promised us a free, efficient, infinitely scalable and perpetually renewable source of energy which we could use to power the whole planet
there are practically zero downsides to it
lol, lmao
PSN: Robo_Wizard1
Do you see the white one or the black one?
I thought that using the slurp juice would create more energy we could use for more AI made NFTs?
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197970666737/
Slurpetual motion is real! You'll see! You'll all see!
aside from reports of him being a creepo that's really the only thing I know about him
but that seems like a gag that would get old after like... a few minutes, not several years worth of full time streaming
It was that DrDisrespect had fuckin lore
Are the legislators objecting to the payments, or that the miners were asked to stop?
he's just a meaty vtuber
hold on i’m getting a note from my producer here
oh no
I'm not sure if it was ever confirmed, but the "concept of love" Stokely Carmichael sample was likely from the Norman Cook (aka Fatboy Slim) "Skip to My Loops" sample cd. It has a lot of samples that show up in other Naganuma songs.
5:14, followed by 3:36 for "The Concept of Love", 2:49 is from "Fly Like a Butterfly", 4:46 from "Oldies but Happies", among others. Link to the entire cd if you were curious (lots of helpful timestamps in the comments).
The Malcom X bit from "Wrapped in Black" has a long history of being used as a sample. But Naganumi likely got it from Polestar Magnetics' "The X-Static Goldmine" sample cds, judging by the number of other samples from those that show up in his songs. (Again, comments have a bunch of helpful timestamps)
As for the other samples from that Stokely Carmichael speech that get used in "Da People", I'm not sure if those were ever on a sample cd or if Naganuma got it straight from the source.
it's almost like those people don't actually care about pedophilia they just use it as a horrible accusation for people they hate
Steam: Chagrin LoL: Bonhomie
Whose name I forget.
Anyway it's a unique idea and nobody else has ever had it.
Oh, you mean a Fleshtuber?
captain dissolution kinda does that sort of shtick
don't like that
Steam: Chagrin LoL: Bonhomie
we are all god's fleshtubers
“UGLY GIANT TUBES OF FLESH”
This is incredibly frustrating because Google doesn’t give me an option for their AI bullshit to not fire. So anytime I’m trying to search for something it is gonna do an AI search.
How much more power am I using when I'm lazy and use google as a calculator vs my calculator app?
From the AP: Conservative-backed group is creating a list of federal workers it suspects could resist Trump plans
The Internet as a whole uses a lot more electricity than people probably realize. It's part of the bad part of web2.0 flashy graphics and tracking shit, tbh.
https://udm14.com/
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/20/24160741/turning-back-the-clock-on-google-search
Alternately: https://udm14.com/
Makes you wonder how much guilt we should be feeling for watching thousands of hours of stupid youtube videos and tiktoks or whatever.
I mean, everything we do in life seems wrong, but still.
it's incredible (in a bad way) that good search engines no longer exist. useful reverse image search no longer exists. technology that has existed for decade(s) has been changed or abandoned so that any search for information just results with more and more ways to spend money.
every time a search engine says "showing results for [words i did not search], would you rather show results for [the words i typed in]" i want to unplug the internet. especially if i click on "no, search for what i told you" and then it says the same "showing other results" nonsense anyway.
There is also plenty of other shit that websites have running, that they don't need to run, but feel entitled to run, even if like 90% of the user base is completely oblivious to it. In fact, I'm pretty sure a fair chunk of users find the stuff obnoxious.
If I'm watching a video, that's a different thing than an animated ad or an overly busy animated top page banner and animated background for a website. When I load up a video, I at least have the intention of watching it and an expectation that it'll probably use more resources than a page of written text.
Though ads, by far are probably the worst fucking offenders.
By the way, I checked how many Google search queries there are in a day. It's 8.5 billion, making this a total consumption of 25.5 GwH/day. Which is the equivalent of about 850k households.
Steam: pazython
Maybe this is me showing my ignorance here but I don't see how those two things square with each other. How can this thing that apparently costs very little electricity and thus very little money also be having so much of an environmental cost? I actually want to hear the answer but my gut feeling is that the real cost of AI is being intentionally downplayed. If for nothing else because of that and also because AI companies are acting like every tech startup working at a loss. Weirdly desperate for people who claim to have invented something that's going to change the world.
https://gofund.me/fa5990a5
but then they discovered that they could make a lot more money if you didn't find what you were searching for right away, and every time you tried again they could show you more ads instead, and search has deliberately gotten worse since then