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Next after this post about chineese users,
A story about a man who says theres something on his shirt, is he gullible enough to fall for it?
Im not against data centers, that’s mostly where the internet runs from. Im against AI data centers though
I worry this may be a real problem though because there is not any real distinction in the messaging.
I work in a small data center. Its a 50x100 ft or so room with a few dozen racks of servers in a non descript old telco building. Not a giant water and energy sucking monster.
Just put a sign up outside that says “Not for AI” or “These are porn servers not AI”
“Local PornHub CDN”
A bunch of the anti-data center propaganda on social media doesn’t make this distinction and it makes it sound like they don’t know what tf they’re talking about, especially given that they’re posting it on a platform powered by data centers and pretty much every internet-based service they use goes through a data center. Even well known leftist accounts are doing this, and they need to get better about clarifying their message because the way they’re promoting it right now makes everyone associated with them look stupid
the red luddite spectre very spooky oOOoooOo
they want to take your freedom slop
I’m guessing the motive would for their AI to be in a better position
They’re taking away our freedom medislop to sell their own Pooh slop
Tap for spoiler
i’m neither from the usa or china. i hate their governments
OpenAI is doing a much better job than China at getting people to hate AI.
I am usually very pro chinese except for the part where they seem to embrace AI. As for ai data centers and Large language models at all: I despise them.
Yeah, human rights abuses are fine but AI data centers are really the place to draw the line.
There are human rights abuses in every western country; i like china because of their push for clean energy and because they might be a potential counterweight to US hegemony. I see no hope in a future where the US has the type of control and power it posseses right now.
Adrien zens human rights abuses, or real ones?
I’m going to meet you both in the middle and let you know real quick, they’re not funding this for funsies. This is their automated surveillance platform. They know the bubble is about to pop, they’re just getting a sale on data centers to store audio, video, the works.
It’s both of your opinions, but far worse.
Qanon tier racist conspiracy mongering
LLMs have a lot of utility so China has the right idea to pursue them. They’re also doing a lot more to mitigate the downsides than the US is
I like the food alright. Their brand of communism that’s just an autocracy with a side of capitalism - in communist giftwrap gets me, tho.
Then again, we in the US do the same with freedom and liberty while restricting your life to the small sphere it allows you to afford.
Fuck both, kinda?
I like china because i’ve always liked their push for clean energy. also as someone from the global south i have no hope left for Europe or the united states, especially with most of western leaders seeming so keen to push far right governments to control my country or my neighbors. So i see china at least as a counterweight. I know this oppinion is scary to westerners, but westerners not being in complete control for once can be actually good.
Clean energy? Energy period is what China pushes, they’ve been HALF of the world’s coal consumption for the last 15 years or so. For every solar farm, a coal plant.
Could that have anything to do with china being the world manufacturing hub? Decades of offloading industrial capacity to a single country and then blaming them for the emissions that causes?
?? I should applaud China for building brand new coal plants because China hollowed out industry and destroyed worker’s power elsewhere in the world?
Oh yeah, big bad China stole your industry lmao, it wasn’t your own leaders choosing the cheapest option that allows them to extract hyper profits. And to say China destroyed worker power is laughable, the goal of the entire West has been to destroy labor unions and bargaining power.
And they seem to be actively pushing to phase out coal tby spending a lot of money in renewable research, but hey, keep fuming.
Any of you read the article that OpenAI wrote? Here’s a quote: “The operation sought to exploit and amplify existing public concerns about energy prices and local impacts of data center development, but we found no evidence of meaningful breakout beyond its own activity .” So it’s less “China is making you hate data centers” and more “they tried but it didn’t work”.
More like “We tried to blame it on China but couldn’t find evidence to back up our accusations”
But we put the accusation in the title anyway, confident that no one will read anything else.
It turned out people didn’t need China to find reasons to hate our data centers.
This is valuable because it shows that China believes this is a wedge issue they can use. Doesn’t really matter to me if it works or not tbh, just that it aligns with their interests is concerning. It would be really interesting if we had info about what other topics China or Russia are investing time into and how they align with domestic political clusters.
Just brainlessly taking openAi at their word. And then just randomly adding Russia in their, out of the blue, because to the fascist westerner “Russia and China” is just a single undifferentiated horde of evil foreigners.
… You believe openAI, why?
Because there is no Chinese campaign against data centers. China was simply pointing out the environmental and economic impacts data centers have on the areas around them.
Who is saying data centers are okay? They are not. And I do not even have any issue with LLM usage, yet I still recognize that data centers are incredibly resource-intensive and can have significant impacts on the communities that host them.
I think the predominant logic in the thread is that China trying to influence Americans against datacenters can’t be true because that could be an attempt to make a pro-datacenter argument, even though it’s not.
I think the logic is more noting that the pro-datacenter argument aligns with linking opposition to them to foreign actors.
Anti-China sentiment is extremely powerful to tap into, and the AI crowd absolutely is pulling out every stop to keep the bubble unpopped. Tapping into that energy for public opinion is the least surprising approach they could be taking.
I understand that it’s easy to believe someone could make this up to undermine anti-AI arguments. I don’t understand why it’s less easy to believe China would use social media to further their own goals - like everybody does. I mean, sometimes reality aligns with what somebody on the wrong team says.
Oh, the reason for that is the claimant here is OpenAI. That’s why there’s this credibility hurdle in people’s reactions.
Kevin O’Leary (Shark Tank) makes the same claim. He isn’t connected with OpenAI but is behind building a Utah datacenter, so he has no credibility either. The problem is, even if China really is doing this, nobody in the anti-AI community will believe it unless somebody points it out who is part of the community - just like with most other major issues. The Information Age has turned out to be a cluster of impenetrable echo chambers.
It’s crazy that the idea that you should actually present evidence to support the accusation against China doesn’t even occur to you.
The overlap between people lamenting data center’s water usage while having absolutely no problem with animal agriculture is insane.
Being anti-AI or anti-datacenter isn’t a reason to deny that China is doing this. It’s not like they don’t want there to be datacenters, they just want everybody to use theirs.
Theory as valid as this one : openAi is funding an astroturfing campaign to make Being anti AI a crime.
Whether either one is true or false should depend on whether there’s evidence of it, not on comparing them for ridiculousness.
Which evidence of China wanting data center out of the US do you have ? They are not even capitalist. I am not sure our schools readyed us with tools to understand their system. But I can’t exclude you point of view as false too so I am asking.
They are not even capitalist
Wut? They have corporations, stock markets, billionaires… I don’t even know how to respond. China is a major competitor in world markets. Might as well ask for evidence that China is real.
Yeah and Europe have healcare, what is the point ? Dude you start by assuming Ill intent, I call you out and now you are divaging. Are you fine ? You look confused.
They at least look like capitalists
China definitely is. I don’t really get how you people don’t see this. You’re on a pretty heavy CCP influenced social media site. This was one of the generators of anti AI. I bet if you used way back machine you’d see a lot of the anti AI meme’s and opinions were originating here. Articles and opinions were heavily astro turfed and I even called this out at the time. It was a barrage of articles and posts that were all eerily similar to right wing content that is aimed at immigrants. It was all the same appeals. Articles about the evil horde of AI coming to attack your daughters and wives and take your jobs and steal your culture. It was a threat and you needed to fear it.
100% China wants their competitors to reject any new tech. Especially if that tech is potentially going to be disruptive. They don’t want the average westerner playing around with it and innovating. This isn’t an endorsement of AI. But you’re blind if you don’t realize that much of our anti AI content is driven by AstroTurfing in order to shoot ourselves in our own foot. This technology is here. It sucks. But if you’re not using it and learning it and innovating, it’s going to be a lot worse for you.
Ironic how you call out anti-immigrant fear mongering, then write an entire Sinophobic conspiracy post.
Weird. Humanity it’s weirdly complex. Imagine a world of complexity outside the internet
If China wants to be the sole victim of AI, let them. No faster way to their destruction exists.
Except they won’t. All these people using it are a lot more intelligent than you and have access to numbers and data showing benefits. You have astroturfed media you read on a pro CCP website
You’re on a pretty heavy CCP influenced social media site.
You grew up watching commercials
Who needs evidence when you have an overwhelming sense of paranoid xenophobia.
You’re the biggest boot licker. I remember you. You pop up often to defend them. Fucking surprise
Bootlicking is when you don’t mindlessly indulge in vast paranoid conspiracy theories to blame all of your countries problems on it’s foreign enemies.
You can tell you’re full of shit because you choose to misrepresent the entire premise. Boot licking at its finest
Go back to reddit
China doesn’t even have to believe that more domestic datacenters is a good bet for the US. Any in fighting and division directly benefits them. I mean they wrote an entire book on this over 1.5 milenia ago.
Russia and China are very well known to use firehose of falsehoods campaigns. it worked so well for them for creating trump, brexit etc - why would they stop now?
The issue here is people being dumb enough to believe there’s some intent and try to extrapolate some sort of real reality from that when it’s literally just spam.
China doing what China does. I’m not playing this game with you. It’s dumb in this era, knowing we knew to act like this stuff isn’t happening. You’re ignorance is your problem.
Ironic that you call me ignorant when my comment mostly agrees with you. Maybe go touch some grass.
Then it’s my mistake. I found it vague and assumed you were saying it was part of that
mean they wrote an entire book on this over 1.5 milenia ago.
Most insanely orientalist shit I’ve seen in my life
. it worked so well for them for creating trump, brexit
"The West is eternally perfect and infallible, anything bad about it is entirely the fault of those evil Chirussians! (All foreigners are part of the same evil horde, after all)
So you’re pro ai datacenter?? You think llms are a disruptive technology, and not a way for the billionaires to become trillionaires?
AI is shaking up everything. My professors are constantly using it for their research to get more accurate simulations, for example. Instead of tweaking parameters for ages an AI tweaks them live while the simulation is running.
Chat bots / LLMs are overhyped and used for lots of things they shouldn’t do but AI is here to stay.
One would think someone in uni would be smart enough to realise that, to a layperson, AI = LLMs / generative model.
People have been automating hyerparameter tuning before anyone knew what a GPT is. Maybe don’t take that “fuck AI” too personally?
Do you think the majority of new datacenters going up are going to be used for those useful niche cases, or LLM slop that they’re going to try to shove down consumers throats?
No, and they’re a huge waste of ressources. We just mustnt use this as a reason to reject AI as a whole.
Maybe the people trying to cram LLMs into every single aspect of our lives should have thought of that before they labelled it AI.
I’m anti having my economy continue to decline. I can’t eat your moral superiority
If I were you, I’d look up what a bubble is in economic terms. You sure as fuck can’t eat anything in a data center, and when people realize how stupid this push has been to put llms in everything, you’re gonna wish you put up more of a fight against them.
Holy shit. Remember the dotcom bubble. Being a bubble isn’t the argument you think it is.
The… Dotcom bubble where investors ignored revenue and profibility which resulted in a market crash and huge economic downturn? The dotcom bubble that this new ai bubble is 100x bigger than?
Tell me about some good bubbles lol.
And what are the biggest companies since then? All tech companies. Fuck this is such waste of time
Lol, good luck in the upcoming recession, pal.
Yeah they’re turning Americans against data centers by describing them objectively, how insidious…
That’s not for you, they say that for Trumpel & co.
I support these imaginary China-based users’s efforts
Don’t be fooled. These Chinese users are being tricked into tricking Americans by secret anti-ai American efforts to trick them into tricking Americans.
They absolutely do this but it doesn’t mean anti datacenter people are wrong. Russia, China, Iran all use amplification techniques to destabilize other countries. You don’t need a complex propaganda plan when you can just amplify every divisive topic and get brexit.
The profound xenophobia of westerners mean they don’t even hesitate to make assertions about “enemy” countries despite the fact they have zero evidence, not even bad evidence, other than their own gut feelings of hostility. What evidence do they have that china “absolutely attempts to turn Americans against Data centers”? None at all, but that doesn’t matter, it’s a negative accusation against a non western nation. What evidence do they have that Iran uses “amplification techniques” to destabilize the West? Well it just feels true, after all, they are coniving foreigners, and surely they must be responsible for the political issues in the West, as the West is too superior to be the source of its own problems.
You don’t need a complex propaganda plan when the U.S. government and corporations conspire daily for new ways to fuck us over. It’s not propaganda at that point.
Why not both? The word propaganda is a bit problematic as it encapsulates too much these days simply because our information landscape is much richer. It can be a valid issue that is amplified by bad actors and it’s still propaganda.
What makes it apparent imo is the “water use” discussions around data centers which frankly are so delulu that it reeks of artificial stimulation. If you’re not familiar there’s basically no water use issue with data center in any meaningful extent other than moving water and we solved moving water 2 millenia ago.
Because calling it propaganda is also propaganda. It’s just another distraction from the fact that a man with 34 felonies has not been sentenced, nobody from the Epstein files has been prosecuted and both Democratic and Republican politicians are more interested in supporting Israel’s genocide than serving the American people.
Don’t see how “china is boosting datacenter misinformation” related to “US’ president is a felon”
I think you’re a bit lost here.
Why not both?
Great standard of evidence there: “even when I have to admit the cause of a problem in the West might not be Foreigners, it could also be foreigners as well!”
Lol. It’s obviously a consortium of trans, immigrants and antifa that are behind it. While Michelle Obama and Soros are funding the operation.
You gotta do the /s
Even that shit you typed just now, somebody believes it.
You mean the well known male politician, Michelle Obama?
In a armless dress of all things!
/S
