In my eyes, I think AI should be more focused on the TOOL part of it, it wouldn't use as much water or cause as much damage if people weren't have friendly conversation with it, Gemini summarizing searches and giving the sources is a great example of what I like in AI. But we either need a better way to cool it and run it, or we need to make it so that it doesn't do a bunch of dumb extra stuff which requires more cooling and therefore more resources. If you're going to argue it still needs cooled when not doing work, my argument would be that it's slowed enough to the point it isn't causing as much environmental harm, PLENTY of things use water as coolant and AI being one of those isn't bad for it, the issue is how much it has to use, reducing that would help its case a lot even if you don't remove it out right.

(Also if we could make it so AI art didn't exist simply to run less resources it'd help a lot, I feel AI workers could still make it for learning analysis but, normal people don't need that kind of thing. I personally don't care for the training as the AI still draws independently regardless of how many things it was trained on, but it would fix that too.)

also ppl use ai to make all kinds of slop thats polluting online spaces TvT