I will need to sit down and write some AI apologist mythbusting. So many pushers - most recently the GrapheneOS account - try to justify stuff like energy use with bullshit. "It requires so much energy because so many people use it for trivial stuff".

Like. Dude. Not only is that mind boggingly stupid, it doesn't fucking matter, because the tech is built on stolen labor, and continues to DDoS the entire internet. These two are reason enough to steer clear of it. And local models don't help either.

Every timebI read AI apologia, I feel second hand shame, seeing how completely detached some people are from reality and how little empathy they have.