Environment & Energy

a number have been posted here.

Again, I was not including scientific research among the harms done by genAI (but I will point out that after all the hype about AlphaFold, it was revealed later that with all the hallucinations, traditional checking had to be done - https://biosciences.lbl.gov/2024/01/23/researchers-assess-alphafold-model-accuracy/ ).

The harms I mentioned to society are not "frivolous" and it's wrong to pretend they are, just as it was wrong for you to post above that I'd said that your son's work was "immoral and pornographic" when I'd said nothing remotely like that. And please don't try to confuse data center construction that tech companies have said they need for genAI with computing in general. Google's AI search, for instance, uses 10x the electricity of regular search (and often produces less reliable results, and diverts traffic from websites the data is taken from, hurting the internet).