Reposted by Jo draws 💫
Today's reminder that the current genAI boom is powered by GPUs manufactured with a mineral called coltan (and other rare earths, and cobalt) mined through the labor of enslaved children in Congo, and the US and UAE fund the paramilitaries which protect those mines and keep those children enslaved.
![[Scene is a kitchen, a person is boiling some peas on the hob]
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PERSON 1:
Oh dear!
PERSON 2:
What is it babe?
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PERSON 1:
I am so overwhelmed with cooking these peas...
PERSON 2:
You mean you’re not using AI peas?
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PERSON 1:
AI peas?
PERSON 2:
They’re peas with AI!
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PERSON 2:
AI powered peas harness the potential of your peas
PERSON 1:
What
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PERSON 2 [Now in voice-over as hi tech meaningless graphics play]:
Taking your peas to the next level with new AI features powering your peas
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PERSON 2 [V/O over increasingly ridiculous graphics]:
Each pea has AI in a way we haven’t quite worked out yet but it’s fine
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PERSON 2:
Putting AI to work for your peas and connecting every corner of your peas
PERSON 1:
Peas don’t have corners
PERSON 2:
It does not matter!
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PERSON 2:
Our game-changing PEA-AI gives you the freedom to get the peas done
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PERSON 2:
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
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PERSON 2:
to spending millions on adding AI to the peas and then having to work out what that means
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PERSON 1:
Is it necessary to -
PERSON 2 [grabbing her buy the cardigan]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
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[Advert ending image showing the product, a bag of peas, with its slogan]
PEA-I AI PEAS WITH AI
Just ‘peas’ for God’s sake buy the AI peas
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