🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'AI brings soaring emissions for Google and Microsoft, a major contributor to climate change'

12 July 2024 - kudos:

This sucks so much—and encapsulates our world’s obsession with financial success over environmental health. link to “AI brings soaring emissions for Google and Microsoft, a major contributor to climate change”

🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'AI means Google's greenhouse gas emissions up 48% in 5 years'

3 July 2024 - kudos:

If AI is indeed going to help us reduce emissions, it seems to me that that will be the product of targeted, scientific and industrial use of AI, not shoving AI into a load of commercial products. Are these commercial companies using AI to figure out how to reduce emissions? If not (and maybe even if so), it seems disingenuous to express optimism that their increased energy use will be magically cancelled out by someone else.

🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Microsoft’s AI obsession is jeopardizing its climate ambitions'

16 May 2024 - kudos:

Such a depressing article. link to “Microsoft’s AI obsession is jeopardizing its climate ambitions”

🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Microsoft and OpenAI say hackers are using ChatGPT to improve cyberattacks'

14 February 2024 - kudos:

Hmm. Unsurprising but all the more frustrating for it. link to “Microsoft and OpenAI say hackers are using ChatGPT to improve cyberattacks”

1 October 2023 - kudos:

I don’t know if I’m using OneDrive wrong or if it is just that much worse than Google Drive for syncing local files.

22 February 2023 - kudos:

Outlook’s semi-new “reactions” are killing me; if it’s not accessible from another email client, it shouldn’t be a feature. Email is one of the few shared web protocols we’ve got, so let’s not ruin it through platformization.