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fromHigh Country News
1 week ago

Journalism is made by humans, not machines - High Country News

I used to need about half a day per month to handle my personal business. That amount of time has tripled, mainly due to the skyrocketing degree of ineptitude on the other side of these transactions. AI receptionists, unwanted apps and other substitutes for human interaction have made everything worse. You can't refill a prescription if the AI receptionist doesn't recognize the name of the medication. It's getting harder and harder to get an actual person - someone capable of exercising judgment -
Media industry
California
fromKqed
1 month ago

AI Boom Leads To Increased Concerns Of Environmental Impacts Of Data Centers | KQED

California pursued AI laws emphasizing safety transparency, a public CalCompute cloud, and data-center reporting of energy and water use to address environmental impacts.
US politics
fromFortune
1 month ago

Huge AI data centers are turning local elections into fights over the future of energy | Fortune

Generative AI's massive computing needs are turning data centers into huge resource-draining mega-complexes and making them major political flashpoints over power, water, land, and jobs.
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