Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 20/06/2025This is missing from almost every AI/LLM discussion I see on here. The lack of consideration for the environmental impacts is rooted in our collective colonial disconnection from land. We need to re-learn our place in the world from a relational framework so, so badly 1584 58
Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 20/06/2025For those of you who have been convinced that LLMs are great or even neutral: Are you willing to have a data centre built in your neighborhood? Are you willing to let a mining company tear up your local hills? Are you willing to let the production runoff poison your waterways? 38118 81
WavidYordan @wavid.bsky.social · 20/06/2025💯 I'm willing to concede that like machine learning, LLM or Gen AI or w/e may have their place, but they are unconscionable until an environmental (and ©️ ) solution is found, which may literally be never based on its method. 010 1
Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 20/06/2025Or do you not think about that stuff because it only impacts the poor communities those impacts have been shunted to? If you don't, it's not your fault—we've all been trained to ignore that stuff! Because looking away enables capitalism. They distract us and lie to us. Resist that by reconnecting 1486 48
TheDaddyOtaku 🏳️🌈🇨🇦 (He/Him/Daddy) @thedaddyotaku.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Don't forget higher electricity prices! 020 2