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The #Sustainability #Index - #Environmental Blog, News & Guides about sustainable Products, #Companies & their impact, #AI, #Pacifism, #AnimalRights, Cleaning up trash in #nature ๐ŸŒฒ & #vegan / #vegetarian topics much more ๐ŸŒ

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nixCraft, to random
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This is funny. OpenAI, who scraped the entire internet to build its product, is now enforcing copyright via notices. They still donโ€™t give credit for stealing content from everyone, yet now acting like holier-than-thou https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1cnvyzp/

madeindex,
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@nixCraft
Microsoft's influence on OpenAI clearly showing... โ˜ ๏ธ

madeindex, to news
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I knew #school wasn't healthy for me but...

#Monsanto - #Bayer is making sure kids get what they deserve... "neurological, endocrine system and other health issues"!

Update on the post from yesterday:

They are already down from 857 #Million to 438 in restitution, because they argued it was "unconstitutionally excessive" ๐Ÿ˜…

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/judge-slashes-857-mln-monsanto-verdict-438-mln-pcbs-case-2024-04-24/

#pollution #news #reuters #evil #poison #pcb #foreverchemicals #disease #environment

madeindex, to Disneyland
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#Monsanto 's vision of the future - in 1957 #Disneyland! ๐Ÿ 

A dream collaboration between 2 wonderfully evil #corporations, working hand in hand on the future we now live in:
"Is everything of plastic? - Almost!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUOTVPVQZNo

#Microplastics everywhere, #pcbs (#foreverchemicals) - even in schools ๐Ÿฅฐ - A courtesy of... Monsanto!

https://foodscience.news/2023-12-27-monsanto-ordered-pay-7-people-exposed-chemicals.html

#Bayer #MonsantoBayer #Disney #Microplastic #plastic #chemicals #poison #environment #pollution

madeindex, to Disney
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is definitely not what it used to be, it is scary that this makes content, which consume and form a part of their on. Is this really what imagined when he started it

Here is the sticker from our recent Banksy

One of many about the lovely products:
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2011/aug/27/disney-factory-sweatshop-suicide-claims

More at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_Walt_Disney_Company

madeindex,
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@alexanderhay Hahah good one was the pack that said "reward yourself", with what, lung cancer? ๐Ÿ˜‚

madeindex,
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@alexanderhay ๐Ÿ˜‚ Elsa in 40 years ๐Ÿ˜‹

madeindex,
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@alexanderhay
Found out something fun on the channel you shared - Disney Parks even collaborated with Monsanto ;)
https://mastodon.social/@madeindex/112378708115619844

wonderofscience, to random
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Timelapse of the Falkirk Wheel in action; the only rotating boat lift of its kind in the world.

Video Credit: David Iliff / CC BY-SA 3.0
Further reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falkirk_Wheel

Timelapse video of the Falkirk Wheel, with its curved arms cradling water-filled gondolas rotating around a central axis, seamlessly raising and lowering vessels between the joining canals, all under an overcast sky that casts a soft glow on the wheel and the green landscape.

madeindex,
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@wonderofscience very cool engineering ๐Ÿ˜

anubiarts, to pixelart
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tiny doodles: lil astronaut

wanted to go back to my art-style roots with this one. I may do more redraws in this style!

A Picture of a cat, sitting on the floor while there's a bubble in front of them, in such position that it makes it seem like they're wearing an astronaut helmet. This cat is gonna go far.

madeindex,
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@anubiarts Catsome! :patcat:

baldur, to random
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โ€œWSJ: The AI industry spent 17x more on Nvidia chips than it brought in in revenueโ€

Linking to a reddit thread just for the headline quote they found in a paywalled WSJ article feels a bit weird butโ€ฆ

This 17x number is just for chips so the actual cost x revenue multiplier is much higher in reality https://old.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/1bs1ebl/wsj_the_ai_industry_spent_17x_more_on_nvidia/

madeindex,
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@baldur Well these are initial investments into hardware & research right? (don't have a WSJ subscription ๐Ÿ˜… )

I'm curious how the operational costs will turn out once the is fully developed and if they are low enough to recover the investments ๐Ÿค”

The salaries for AI engineers & scientists & Server engineers etc. seem to be > 110k$/yr in the US according to :
https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/ai-engineer-salary-SRCH_KO0,11.htm

https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/ai-scientist-salary-SRCH_KO0,12.htm

https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/server-engineer-salary-SRCH_KO0,15.htm

madeindex,
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@baldur I'm sure the big tech companies make sure to value the AI close to the original purchase price in their yearly financial reports, even after running 365 days @ 24/7 ๐Ÿ˜‚

CPU's / Graphic Chips probably survive the servers a maximum 3-10 years under these conditions right?

RLHF training must be the weirdest job ever ๐Ÿ˜œ

madeindex, to tesla
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My article clarifying some things about the expansion & protests just got published at ๐Ÿ˜Š !

https://cleantechnica.com/2024/04/18/whats-going-on-with-the-protests-at-teslas-giga-berlin-factory-situation-on-the-ground/

More coming soon.

Miriamm, to random
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OTD: 18th April 75 years ago Ireland became a republic
It was also the day we officially left the commonwealth.

madeindex,
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@Miriamm thats aalooot of people!

pfefferle, to fediverse
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We released version 2.3.0 of the plugin for .

Some new features:

  • Support for alt-attributes
  • Prioritize attachments based on the post format (article => all, audio => audio, video => video, ...)
  • Improve JS widgets
  • A better default content handling based on the Object Type
  • You can now add/remove the capability to use ActivityPub for each User

Full changelog: https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#230---2024-04-16

Download: https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/releases/tag/2.3.0

madeindex,
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@pfefferle
interesting plugin, will check it out! ๐Ÿ‘

stroughtonsmith, to random
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Hereโ€™s your AI astonishment/nightmare fuel for today:

"TL;DR: single portrait photo + speech audio = hyper-realistic talking face video with precise lip-audio sync, lifelike facial behavior, and naturalistic head movements, generated in real time.โ€

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/vasa-1/

video/mp4

madeindex,
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@stroughtonsmith It's interesting, has gotten to the point where you can only trust information coming from a source with a great and long record.

So the intelligence community just needs to spam massive amounts of fake documents & other data & a whistleblower can never be trusted again, without face to face verification ๐Ÿค”?

  • That person could always have been agent with fake information, but now it could become almost impossible to find the real ones right?
madeindex,
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@KanaMauna @stroughtonsmith
AI will make custom movies & tv shows & games -> bancruptcy for the entertainment industry -> might be good for the environment if all these smart & educated people do different jobs instead

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@NatureMC @KanaMauna @stroughtonsmith
the amount of energy will go down over time i think. Do you mean water for cooling?
The amount of resources a human needs to have 6-12 hours of working time are immense too. I think AI will start to do digital things more environmentally efficient soon.

madeindex,
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@NatureMC
Interesting, thank you for the articles!

Maybe it was not clear enough what i wanted to say:
AI produces digital entertainment products using resources. To be able to produce digital entertainment products humans also need resources (often also data centers).
If AI can produce the same product by using less resources (this point might already be here now, very hard to figure out, might be on a case to case basis), i think that could be good from an environmental point of view.

madeindex,
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@NatureMC
The humans could go on to do other things which might be more beneficial to the environment than what they currently do.
AI will, just like other technological advances in the past become more efficient at doing digital tasks, while humans will probably lesser so.

This in no way means i think it's good what the big AI corporations (e.g. META ๐Ÿคข ) are doing. There are also open source AI out there, which i hope will become equally good at producing digital products given time.

donni, to random
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Iโ€™ll never go to bed at a reasonable hour despite being constantly exhausted and I refuse to learn from this

madeindex,
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@donni It's good to have found the community here in the comment section haha

ElleGray, to random
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in my mind every one of these cows is a muppet. and they sing

madeindex,
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@ElleGray hhahahah i swear every time i walk across a field and there is a herd of cows, they look at me like that - "THE F-YOU DOING HERE, YOU LOST?"

madeindex, to random
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Does anyone else automatically move their #mouse towards #TOR whenever they have to open a #government or #corporate link? ๐Ÿ‘๏ธ ๐Ÿ–ฑ๏ธ ๐Ÿง… ๐Ÿ˜‚

nixCraft, to random
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Friend: What's your Plan B career if AI replaces you ?

Me: resistance leader who will led one of the earliest uprisings against AI ๐Ÿค– the job is practically impossible to replace by AI ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ’ฅ

madeindex,
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@nixCraft haha there will be a loooot of competition for it though ๐Ÿ˜‚

Haste, to random
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I got my first AI generated voicemail last night. It used my name and everything, pretending to be my dad. (He did not accept my transition back in the day, so it was immediately obvious)

If you thought the robocall waves were bad, just wait.

madeindex,
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@Haste I noticed the older are the more and they get.

kristinHenry, to drawing
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Thinking about a string of thoughts as a string of beads today.

I didn't get around to posting yesterday's drawing here, but it's on my Patreon and Ko-fi:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/97661100
https://ko-fi.com/post/InkyDays-February-2024-Q5Q5TZZTP

madeindex,
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@kristinHenry
very cool, looks like organism under the microscope!

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