Sharing a bathroom with my neighbour is slowly breaking me

They're not giving a grammar lesson though? People are just saying that using AI is becoming all too common and an imperfect, human post is preferable to basically getting a machine to think and work for you.

No. But use of google for example, streaming services on TV, even doing the washing up or taking long showers are all activities that people do all the time without giving any consideration to the environmental impact. Using AI is not 'worse' than all the other things people do! An AI search is equivalent to 90 seconds of video streaming. How many people binge watch Netflix for hours on end and nobody is shaming them for the environmental impact! One litre of water is around 20-50 AI queries. How many times have you accidentally left the water running while you brush your teeth or overrun a bath or even chosen a bath over a shower? AI is part of modern life now. It's no worse than any of the other myriad terrible things we do daily that are destroying the environment. Singling out use of AI whilst doing everything else harmful is hypocritical, ignorant and dogmatic.

This person needs help, not a grammar lesson.
I feel your being a bit insensitive.

Not the UK then?

7-15 times actually, not 100 times!!

Do you think it was used wisely on this occasion?

A single AI search can provide more than equal the information of 10 google searches. One AI response when used wisely can replace a limitless number of google searches.

If the massive environmental damage caused by AI has passed you by, I think you need to read up on it urgently.

We are destroying our planet so that people can look at pictures with the wrong number of fingers and avoid thinking too hard about how to form a sentence.

Using AI like ChatGPT is incredibly damaging to the environment due to the amount of CO2 it produces (just training a system before it is even put into use generates the same amount of CO2 as the lifetime emissions of 5 cars). It also requires tons of water to constantly cool the processing centres to prevent overheating, and relies on vast amounts of fossil fuel consumption to run. AI hardware needs a lot of rare minerals to manufacture which leads to habitat destruction and pollution when mining for them.

Generating an AI answer to a question uses AI data centres and way more processing power than simply Googling something. The tech uses more electricity and more water for cooling. Asking ChatGPT a single question consumes around 100 times the energy of a Google search.

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I think it's something to do with how much water it needs to cool down the servers (something like that anyway)

It's not a theory, it's fact. There are countless articles on this from well-respected sources. The data centres used to train and power AI use absolutely massive amounts of electricity, all fossil-fuel based, and massive amounts of water. It has a huge impact on climate change. The International Energy Agency published a report saying that a single AI search uses 10 times more electricity than a Google search.

Fucking AI.

We are doomed as a species.

How is AI bad for the environment?

I think there's a theory that AI is bad for the environment somehow (not sure why!)

Exactly. A friend of mine had a house share with him and other people in the house, with one (!) shared bathroom. I think I'd move on as I'd hate to put up with that for years - uni was bad enough with annoying housemates 😆

Exactly, people just responding as if it's written by a human and that it makes sense.
Make it make sense 😁
It can't even make up its mind who the OP is -(beefthief? Wallstoothin? Who knows 🙄)

Do you mean 'outsource' their brains?

Why is anyone responding to this when it's just AI? Its even got the draft title etc at the top

"Clarify things through a bot"
No wonder it makes no bloody sense then.
Hate AI and ChatGPT so much, people are losing the ability to think for themselves or write coherently. They'd rather output their brains.
Rah.

I used to live in a tiny flat with a shared loo and bathroom. It was an old Victorian house conversion, and the facilities were on the landing, and my neighbour lived on the other side of the landing. She and I were very considerate of each other, and it really helped that the loo was separate!
Fond memories of singleton life with ridiculously cheap rent.
Sorry OP - no help at all.

Can you agree a timetable? But honestly, I would look for somewhere else to live.
If you can't move then attempting to agree a timetable, agreeing that bathroom ahould be left clean. Agreeing certain things and sticking it on the bathroom door as a checklist before exiting the bathroom, ie wipe toilet seat, dry excess water, wash round basin, remove hair. And jointly buying stuff to enable quickly doing these things. Ie a scrubbing brush and squeegy.
Failing all of that complain to landlord and move??

eh?

beefthief · Today 02:40
Thread title: Sharing a bathroom with my neighbour is slowly breaking me
OP — Posted by: WallTooThin

Who is the OP- Beefthief or WallTooThin?

Confused.

Whoever you are, are you living in a shared house or maybe a bedsit with a bathroom for tenants to share? (Which was common in the 1960s)