The impact on climate change is not an issue if we use clean energy

You cut off the rest of the sentence where I qualify my statement

How about we just prosecute those cops and keep the cameras

That’s a valid opinion, but let’s not pretend it’s all downside.

https://www.cbs42.com/business/press-releases/ein-presswire/862582100/ai-based-cctv-had-found-5-missing-people-with-only-23-cameras-in-california/

Let’s not pretend there’s only downside

There are thousands of cases of finding missing persons using cameras

https://www.whsv.com/2026/08/01/deputy-uses-flock-cameras-find-missing-girl-less-than-30-minutes/

If you compare to 50 instances of abuse, is that a good tradeoff

I’m forefathers?

I see nothing wrong with what you’re doing in public being available to law enforcement. It’s already legal to record it, a cop can pull out his phone and record you and it’s not illegal already

Not every move. Only moves in public where recording with your phone is already legal

I didn’t say that

It’s actually a good idea? You don’t have expectation of privacy when you’re outside. It’s legal for anyone to install a camera pointing outside.

The renewable transition cannot be stopped because it’s simply now cheaper to generate solar and wind. You install them once every few decades and only do basic maintenance to get power and store that into batteries. It could be that we have so much oil left over it won’t be expensive

I’ve rented one before, but it’s too expensive now. Technically, since I ran Katago on it you might consider it AI

You want cities to be broke?

Might as well say flying is convenience for the rich and privileged. Because in the 1950s, it was. If you were poor, you still went on a boat. It could be we all do transatlantic trips on a plane like this in the future.

They bring in lots of revenue, and the climate change is not an issue if we build more solar with energy storage. Texas is showing everyone it can be done.

Data centers need to be close to cities to have low latency to provide services. Even things like translation needs AI and if it’s immediate it makes conversations between people who speak different languages faster. I talk to a guy who only knows Spanish and he uses AI to translate sometimes when his daughter is not available.

Let’s not pretend the old way of translation with dictionary lookups and stuff actually worked

I run my VPS from AWS and it’s in one of those huge data centers, so it just depends on what service you’re using

You need data centers to run services. Not every single one of them will be used for AI. Most Lemmy instances are hosted in a VPS in a data center. You can’t put a moratorium on AI construction without impacting other types of data centers since they are the same type of building

You use a different bank. Honestly, if people voted with their feet, these issues wouldn’t be as common

This doesn’t take into account interest rate. Homes were cheaper in the 1980s because nobody could afford a mortgage at 10% or more

Housing was actually easier to finance after the housing crash because of 0% interest rates and lots of foreclosed real estate. That is, if you didn’t lose your job due to the financial crisis