A lot of us here hate AI because of how it was built: training data gathered without the creators’ explicit, opt-in consent, data centers that negatively affect communities’ access to clean water and energy, a technology design that is inherently prone to hallucinations, etc. At least, those are the main reasons why I hate it.
I think I might actually want to support an AI project if I thought it was being done right. Maybe we could get more people away from exploitative models if there was a non-exploitative alternative.
So what would it take to build AI ethically, in your opinion? And do you know of anyone trying to build AI without these issues?
I mean the energy usage in the face of global climate catastrophe is pretty unethical regardless of source of training material or what the LLM is used for
Companies are the ones doing that.
Running an LLM inherently requires a large amount of energy. Whether locally run or in a large data center. Companies just make it happen on an insane scale.
Yes but the LLM is not the thing making the decision to do that on that scale. The people using it are.