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Ann Shields's avatar

I confess that while I am, indeed, concerned about losing freelance work to AI, my main concern is the truly disturbing amount of energy and water required to artificially create a drawing or 800-word article. (I run on coffee and anxiety. Cheap.) MIT reckons that by 2030, data centers will account for 21% of the world's power demand. I hope we can find a way to make it more sustainable because it's clearly not going away.

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Sally Kirby's avatar

Such a fun and interesting experiment, thank you!

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Mike Gerrard's avatar

Fascinating, but you should have put it out without saying it was AI-generated, to see the response.

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Lottie Gross's avatar

We'd never send anything to our readers made by AI without telling them! I appreciate it would have been interesting, but I'd never want to pass off AI work as my own. It's an ethical quandary not worth entering for the sake of an experiment in my opinion.

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Mike Gerrard's avatar

I meant that you should have got the responses and then said next week that it was AI-generated. Maybe my comment is AI-generated...

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