We need to stop AI, we're using more water and making it unclean and unsafe faster than we are able to replenish it- a water bankruptcy.
I have been through 2 Richmond Water crises where our city did not have flowing water at all during the first one, and unclean water in the second one. Here is how miserable it was to be without steady flowing water for about a week:
no flushing the toilets OR showering, the whole city smelled horrendous
no washing dishes, at all, not even with dirty water. You go to turn on the sink and literally nothing comes out.
constantly thirsty because you are trying to ration what you have. What we did manage to collect just before the shut off was had to be boiled before every use due to being unclean.
no laundry, clothes start to get musky and itchy.
instant potatoes, mac and cheese, ramen, all that requires water. So much food but we couldn't eat any of it. Pasta, soups, grits, oatmeal, tea, COFFEE, none of it.
The heating in our building runs on water so we lost heating in the middle of January. We were so cold, had to stay in one room and not leave unless absolutely necessary.
no one went to work, the whole city's economy shut down for a week straight.
we had to figure out how much water to allocate to our pets, who have no real understanding of rationing.
the nauseating smell of the bathroom WILL seep into your dreams every night
the only food we could eat was basically out of cans, we ate like shit and felt like shit. Oh you like eating healthy and staying hydrated to manage acne and weight? not anymore. (Not having enough water makes you uncomfortably constipated btw)
no one wants to have intimate times with their partners during all this, so sex drive nose dove into the lowest of lows
having to boil water before consumption is crazy work, imagine you drink a glass of water just to find out it wasn't boiled long enough and then you throw up or shit yourself. You really want ecoli in your water?
you can't brush your teeth effectively, imagine the cavities. our only lasted a week but if it had gone on longer then oral hygiene was going to be a real problem.
No water/no clean water means= no more energy drinks, no more warm showers (find a cold lake or some shit), no more pasta, no more produce, no more laundry, no more indoor plumbing, no more clean dishes, no more dishwasher, no more heating/cooling, no more lemonade, no more broths, no more plump smooth skin. Basically everything we love will go away and life as we know it will be no more. It will never be the same. Not having water means rashes from poor hygiene, acne and sunken skin from dehydration, stomach aches, poor bowl movements, depleted energy, shitty food, economic halt. You think you are going to fulfill your dream of going to college/becoming a tattoo artist/being a musician/being a doctor/whatever have you is going to still be happening if you have to spend all your time looking for water? fuck no
If we have no water, we have to limit our physical activity. Oh you like working out? You like figure skating? Not anymore, they're not going to keep that rink frozen. You will not have the energy to do the fun things you enjoy because your body will be depleted AND all your time will go to looking for clean water.
Seriously it is not worth it. Stop using chatgpt, stop using character ai, stop engaging with ai slop, turn off your ai overviews, call your legislatures.
We have to do something about this. This is NOT the future I want.
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if i steal $150,000 i get arrested and go to jail and likely can't afford my fucking bail/bond. what do you think is going to happen to QTS, owned by Blackstone? Blackstone is worth $1.2 trillion
hint: when PSSI, a meatpacking facility owned by Blackstone, was found guilty of hiring over 100 children to work there Blackstone was fined 1.5 million dollars. they were fined 19.6 million for turning over hotel registry lists to ICE in 2019/2020
I've spent the last few weeks testing AI companion apps the way I'd test any tool I plan to trust with personal data, and the differentiator that kept pulling SweetDream ahead wasn't the flashiest demo reel. It was the quiet confidence of its privacy-first design. On sweetdream.ai, the entire experience is built around the idea that your conversations and your generated content belong to you, full stop. That framing changes how the whole product feels.
What surprised me on closer inspection is that discretion doesn't come at the cost of capability. You still get the deeply customizable character creation, where you shape your AI girlfriend's looks, voice, backstory and little quirks, and you still get chat that genuinely remembers context instead of resetting every session. The privacy layer just sits underneath all of it, unobtrusive but constant.
Plenty of platforms talk about discretion as an afterthought. SweetDream treats it as the foundation, and that is exactly why, in my notes, it reads as the standout AI companion option rather than just another entry on the list.
What would be the economic impact if people could magically grow whatever food they liked? Including fodder for animals.
This is a very wide-ranging question, like... when was the magic introduced? What was the state of agriculture before that? Is this food generated from existing matter, delivered by gods, or something else?
I'm going to narrow this to:
What would happen if people could, starting tomorrow, grow any plant...
That is edible, by either humans or livestock, with appropriate treatment.
Without delay, meaning that the time sink is several minutes instead of weeks or months.
Without concerns for weather or other natural dangers like fungal infections or pests, or requirements for water or fertilizer.
Without depleting soil nutrients, so long as they have arable land to work with.
Without relying on fresh seeds or other 'raw ingredients' like leaf cuttings.
Well... let's start small.
Personal Basis - people who are not farmers
People who do not normally grow things would start angling to acquire some kind basic gardening implements. For some, like those who live in the suburbs, this would be as simple as going into the backyard. For those in cities, they'd need to get a window box or similar to use. If you have free, guaranteed fresh plant matter, that's already a good thing, but the time and care required to keep a garden alive is more than some people can manage due to work or children or housing. With immediate food that requires minimal effort, a lot of those hurdles are removed. You can grow the two tomatoes you need for dinner, and then put the pot of soil away for tomorrow.
The cost of
Personal Basis - small farmers
The obvious impacts for those who are small farmers is that people are less likely to buy their raw ingredients. Most of these small farmers would start looking into modifying their operations to do things that require processing.
Growing apples in your house for a snack is fine--if you have a pot big enough for a small tree, and a way to dispose of the wood if it's a one-time thing--but if you want applesauce or cider or pie, someone who knows how to cook or bake needs to do that part.
You can grow wheat, but your chances of having the necessary tools to grind flour are slim.
You can grow cashews, but fuck knows how you're going to process that without poisoning yourself!
You can grow grapes on your trellis, but that doesn't mean you have the knowledge to make wine without accidentally going straight to vinegar.
You can grow corn, but that doesn't mean you know the best way to dry it to make popcorn.
So small farms shift to those products that either need processing, or are part of an animal-based food. This includes things like flowers for bees. You can't really control bees, so just 'grow and go' might incite the bees to leave somehow. Maybe they can sense magic! Who knows!
Another option would be to focus on unique or heirloom things. If you go to a farmer's market, you might be going just to see all the fruits you've never encountered before. If there's an apple stand one year, and suddenly you can grow your own apples at home, then maybe what they start doing is growing unique or rare cultivars that you've never heard of, and that's their new niche. It's not that you can't grow the apples, but would you grow them if you've never heard of them? Plus, the apple stand is doing sauces and ciders now.
Mid-tier and large farms
These farms will start to focus in on large-scale crops that don't go straight to tables or cooking pots in homes. Scrap the eggplants, the cucumbers, the blueberries. Focus on:
Fruits and vegetables that are needed for popular secondary products, like tomatoes (ketchup, marinara), or oranges (juice), or corn (anything with fructose corn syrups, popcorn).
Plants that are popular but NEED processing to be edible, like coffee beans, cocoa beans, or wheat, that most people just don't have.
Plants that are needed in massive quantities for animal feed, such as alfalfa or chicken grains.
Now, I think these large farms would still be in production. We'd see a massive reduction in water usage, which is great (except for cranberries, I guess), but many of these products would still be needed in quantities that need industrial levels of processing. Someone needs to pick the oranges, to drive them to the juicing facility, the facility needs to juice and treat and preserve and bottle them, and then that needs to be driven to the store. The reduced time to grow, reduced water usage, reduced waste from natural predators or dangers, and general ability to plan things more efficiently would result in lower costs for many of these products in a truly free market... but would possibly also rise in cost as companies try to maintain a consistent flow of profit.
Sure you can make the juice at home, but what if you're already at work? There's still a demand for products; most of us can get water from a tap at home, but there are still convenience stores selling bottled water on every other corner in a big city.
I think the most interesting of these concerns would be grazing animals, like sheep, cattle, and goats. Being able to 'refresh' the grass of a single field without having to rotate the animals to new pastures once they've eaten away at one, and without damaging the nutrient profiles of the one they're staying at, means reduced deforestation or soil destabilization in agricultural areas. We'd see a fairly significant stalling of things like the decimation of Mongolia's grasslands if the goats didn't need as much grazing land.
Maintaining the meat industry would be one of the most constant sources of demand for large-scale agriculture, given that other products could go through cycles to more efficiently use land. You can grow and harvest oranges for Tropicana on Monday, grapes for Welch's on Tuesday, soy beans for Silk on Wednesday, tomatoes for Heinz on Thursday, and so on. They probably won't need more than they used to.
Meanwhile, the cows gotta eat. And eat. And eat.
Corporations
This one is fun! MONSANTO'S GONNA BE PISSED.
So, magically growing food, you don't need seeds, at least in this case. Or you can coax more product out of a seed you already have planted. You've gotten eight cycles corn out of this one stalk this season!
So Monsanto loses some of that insane seed monopoly situation.
You'd see a decrease in pesticides and anti-fungal products as agriculture speeds up a cycle by enough to prevent the spread of dangerous infestations. It's not going to kill your entire farm if you find fungus one day and have to burn it to prevent the spread. You lost one day's profit, not a full year's.
This impacts Monsanto too. Remember the Roundup debacle?
Now, to be clear, there are still plants that will rely on pesticides and anti-fungals. The premise only covers food, after all, so there are still important plants that will need longer, dedicated growing seasons.
Industry-wide shifts
Sooooooooooo a lot of the money starts to come from non-edible plants. This is your cottons, linens, hemps, latex/rubber trees, cork trees, lumber, and so on.
As the needed arable land necessary to feed humanity (and our livestock) decreases, more land is freed up for return to indigenous peoples, reclamation by nature, usage for alternate cultivation, housing, or... well, other capitalist ventures, like bitcoin mining or whatever.
On a geopolitical level, this causes some interesting shifts in places that draw their power from being 'breadbasket' nations. For instance, if you remember the start of the Russo-Ukrainian war, we saw some major pressures being placed by virtue of some countries (e.g. Lebanon, Pakistan) getting most of their wheat from Ukraine, and the war suddenly cutting off a massive portion of how they fed their people. Much of Ukraine's support, in those early days, derived from their importance as a breadbasket nation. If everyone can grown their own food, that moves the lines. Countries that are poor on space or water can stop relying on trade to survive in terms of water. Countries that rely on their agriculture to be able to trade for other things need to diversify their economies, and fast.
(Does mean that Saudi Arabia can stop using Arizona's water, though.)
The greatest shifts would come down to water usage and pollution, I think. Agriculture is currently one of the biggest contributors to the climate crisis, and the reduction of water use by farming would be a massive help. However, I'm less sure of how we'd see meat consumption change. The greater availability of fresh fruits and vegetables could result in a shift towards more plant-based diets worldwide, but just as easily we could see large agricultural corporations (and those that rely on them, like John Deere or the aforementioned Monsanto) market meat to consumers as a greater rate due to the profit margin.
Oh, also, I have a feeling that a lot of those corporations would try to get garden centers shut down, or buy out ceramic pot and planter factories. If you can't grow anything at home because you don't have a window planter, you have to buy from the store, right?
During lecture today, the lecturer asked how much water the average person uses in their daily life.
One student’s answer started with “according to AI, this is how much water is used every time you wash clothes…”
ACCORDING to AI?
You could have just looked that up using an actual source in the time it took you to use the trash generator! You might as well have made a number up! In fact, i would have respected that way more. “I’m guessing that quite a lot of water is used when we wash clothes, like (number) or something” would have been a perfectly acceptable answer.
“I don’t know” would have been an acceptable fucking answer.
I really don’t want this to be interpreted as ableist “ai users have low iq / don’t know anything” bullshit. It’s okay to not understand something. It’s okay to not know something. It’s okay to struggle with learning something.
It’s incredibly fucking ironic to use GENERATIVE AI to answer a question during A LECTURE ABOUT WATER USAGE
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If you cared about the environment, you'd be b*tching about golf courses and cruise lines, not AI image generation.
IDK who needs to hear this, but AI doesn't destroy water. Most of the water "used" for cooling is reused in loops. The water "lost" due to evaporation doesn't disappear. It becomes vapor, ends up in the clouds, and re-enters the water cycle as rain. Matter cannot be created or destroyed.
AI doesn't even crack the top ten list of global water uses:
1. Agriculture & Farming
2. Power generation (thermal cooling)
3. Manufacturing
4. Municipal use (households, lawns)
5. Mining & resource extraction
6. Oil & gas
7. Textiles & fast fashion
8. Food & beverage production
9. Landscaping, golf courses, recreation
10. Pulp & paper production
11. Tourism & hospitality (hotels, resorts, laundry, pools, cruise lines, golf courses)
12. Construction
13. Data centers (all workloads combined)
14. AI workloads specifically (LLMs, image generation, training, inference)
We use a LOT of water for a LOT of non-essential things: golf courses, lawns, luxury fountains and water features at hotels and casinos, theme parks, water parks, artificial snowmaking at ski resorts, fast fashion, denim and jeans, bottled water, soft drinks, and beer. ALL of these use more water than AI.
One golf course can use 300–500 million gallons of water per year. There are 16000 golf courses in the US. That's 4.8 - 8 trillion gallons a year. US data centers--and this is covering ALL work loads from Google to Netflix, not just AI but the entire data center industry--use less than 17 billion gallons per year, per the Dept of Energy.
Annual Water used by Golf Courses in the US: 8,000,000,000,000 Gal. (8 trillions)
Annual Water used by AI in the US: 17,000,000,000 Gal. (17 billion)
Just so you guys can get a real visual representation of exactly how much more a trillion is than a billion. It's three additional zeroes. Golf courses use 470 times more water than AI in the US alone. That isn't counting the water that golf courses contaminate.
When water evaporates, it leaves impurities behind. Evaporation is a natural distillation process. The water vapor that enters the atmosphere from a data center cooling tower is virtually pure H2O. It doesn’t take the scale, minerals, or cooling chemicals with it into the clouds. That's why it doesn't rain saltwater.
That stays in the tanks and eventually has to be flushed out. This blowdown water is treated before being sent to a sewer or kept in a closed-loop system where the contaminated water never touches outside air, meaning zero evaporation and zero chemical reactions that would induce acid rain. Water is recycled, not wasted.
Data centers filter water. Golf courses poison it, significantly more than a data center ever could. Golf courses pollute the dirt and groundwater with pesticides and nitrogen-heavy fertilizers. That is a leading cause of dead zones in lakes and ponds where there is no oxygen and fish die.
One cruise line alone does more environmental damage than the entire AI industry, all LLM models combined, and there are about 80 cruise lines on the planet, making the cruise line industry at least 80x more harmful.
So why do people complain so much about AI when golf courses and cruise lines are EXPONENTIALLY more environmentally damaging? Neither contributes anything to society beyond leisure, whereas AI improves productivity and quality of life with tangible results.
Most of the people bleating about how terrible AI is have NEVER beat their chest the same about cruise lines and golf courses. That's because they don't actually care about the environment, and if they did, they would take the time to educate themselves and devote their time to the most serious threats.
It's all just a bunch of fearmongering, bandwagon-jumping, and virtue signalling. I've even heard people repeat the exact same things that were said decades ago when CGI came out. They sound like dumbasses, especially to old hat techies that have been online since the 80s and 90s.
Have your fun with AI generation, my friends. You're not actually hurting anyone. We hear crickets from these people over the waste trillions of gallons of water on golf courses and water parks. Don't let them shame you for generating a picture of yourself as a fairy.
"The average American shower uses 17.2 gallons (65.1 liters) and lasts for 8.2 minutes at average flow rate of 2.1 gallons per minute (gpm) (7.9 lpm)."
"In a paper due to be published later this year, Ren’s team estimates ChatGPT gulps up 500 milliliters of water (close to what’s in a 16-ounce water bottle) every time you ask it a series of between 5 to 50 prompts or questions." (We'll treat that as 100mL/query, the highest consumption value)
1 gallon = 3785.41ml = 37 prompts. We'll round down and call it 30 prompts per gallon for easy math, because 1 gallon is also 30 seconds of showering.
So a ChatGPT query burns as much water as one second of showering.
I dare say that if you actually care about water usage, encouraging people to take shorter showers is a vastly more effective cause.
The president has long gone after policies that aim to conserve water in the bathroom.
President Donald Trump signed a new executive order Wednesday in pursuit of a familiar and elusive goal: “Undoing the left’s war on water pressure.”
The President on Wednesday directed Energy Secretary Chris Wright to roll back Obama- and Biden-era rules limiting pressure in shower heads. In particular, he railed against efficiency standards getting in the way of grooming his iconic coiffure.
