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[QUOTE="EnviroSciGuy, post: 5730384, member: 2818"]
[FONT=courier new]AI thinks you're a big dummy, bnoro:[/FONT]

This is rhetorically strong, but as stated it is too broad to be fully defensible.

What he seems to mean is that some AI uses do carry real environmental costs:
training and especially large-scale inference consume electricity, data-center cooling resources, and hardware supply chains that have environmental footprints. That concern is legitimate.

But “poisoning the water supply” is probably hyperbolic unless he is pointing to a specific local case involving data-center water use, contamination, or power generation impacts. Most criticism of AI on environmental grounds is better framed as:
energy demand,
water consumption for cooling,
and added emissions or infrastructure strain.

So my read is:
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[*]the underlying concern is reasonable
[*]the wording is exaggerated
[*]the point becomes stronger if narrowed to frivolous, high-volume uses of AI rather than “AI” in general
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A more accurate version of his sentiment would be something like:
“We are spending substantial energy, water, and computing resources on a lot of trivial AI content, and that tradeoff deserves scrutiny.”

So, emotionally understandable; analytically overstated.
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