i really wish people would stop worrying about the water consumption of ai, which isn’t a whole lot compared to other industries, but would worry about the unethical pirating and scraping of 2 decades worth of free and paid information from the internet
Steve JacksonAnd that’s another genealogist I’ve unfollowed for continuing to pump AI-generated slop into my Bluesky timeline. Generative AI is based on ongoing theft of creatives’ work, and is trashing the planet. Your ‘need’ for images for blog posts / event publicity does not outweigh those costs, in my view.