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@Kirp123@lemmy.world

2026-09-01 07:09 UTC

Chess engines didn’t require data centers that guzzle water and spit out pollution like an 18th century factory.

Replies (3)

  • @ji59@hilariouschaos.com 2026-09-01 07:53

    It’s all about scale, there aren’t billions of chess engine users.

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  • @Shayeta@feddit.org 2026-09-01 08:08

    They did, just on a smaller scale, and they used all games ever played by high-level players. LLMs and image generators were stealing data years before they became viable. And nobody gave a shit. Let’s not pretend most people give a shit about ethics or the environment. Those were impacted long before AI became viable in any way. People hate on AI because it’s affecting everyday prices and employment. Ethics and environment are just convenient shiny arguments few actually stand behind. If tomorrow billionaires turned around and said “actually, here’s UBI for everyone, provided by AI!”, most people would be cheering on intellectual theft and destruction of this earth, and call everyone still against it selfish and regressive.

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  • @Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-09-01 08:10

    Here we go again! You conflate one type of AI with all the other ones. Call it LLM or generative AI. I programmed AI 20 years ago, it still is AI but doesn’t use datacenters. I programmed deep neural networks ten years ago, it did not use datacenters either.

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