Two Secrets about LLM Usage Every Writer Must Remember
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"Like many writers in the SF/F community, I was horrified when on December 19th the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) briefly changed the rules for the Nebula Awards to allow partial LLM usage. In response to member outrage, SFWA undid this change a few hours later and banned all large language models (LLM) usage in any works under consideration for the awards...."

Another story on AI data centers causing electrical supply prices to continue to go up dramatically:

"AI data center 'frenzy' is pushing up your electric bill ? here's why"

The U.S. economy is on track to consume more electricity in 2030 for processing data than for manufacturing all energy-intensive goods combined, including aluminum, steel, cement and chemicals, the IEA found.

I know that electric bills are ridiculously high where I am and if it's largely due to these huge data centers, I say shut them down.  If they can't go off-grid and run themselves off of solar or maybe have some of these AI companies employ people to ride bicycles to generate electricity, then shut them down.  If electric bills are becoming unaffordable so lazy people can have AI write their eMails for them or whatever, we don't need this AI stuff.  People can write their own bloody eMails.  "Oh, but AI can make my comic book!"  Learn to draw.  What is AI getting us?  Has cancer been cured?  Nope.  But the Internet is filling up with AI slop and electric bills are going up and up and up.  Something needs to be done about that.

Notice that politicians promising not to let these data centers drive up costs are winning.  Whether they live up to those promises is another issue but the point is that being anti-AI and/or anti-data centers seems to be a winning issue.

So, our electric bills are high so people can have imaginary boyfriends/girlfriends:

"They Fell in Love with A.I. Chatbots - and Found Something Real"

When I was a kid, our imaginary friends didn't require a boatload of electricity to exist, nor did we have our private conversations recorded by third-parties for their benefit.  And, then, we grew up and those imaginary friends went away.

But now?  I don't know.  It seems very much like we're stuck in the "Whom Gods Destroy" episode of Star Trek.

The ideal place to build these things would be in the Great Lakes region so as to take advantage of the abundant fresh water (which has the added benefit of being quite cold) for cooling the new (preferably nuclear) power plants needed to run the data centers.  Build a dedicated nuclear plant on the shore of Lake Michigan or Lake Superior and put a data farm next to it.  Rinse and repeat.

The reason we don't do this, of course, is due to government burdens and graft burdens.  It takes forever to get a new nuclear plant built due to the red tape involved.  Also, business-friendly states are generally in the south, not the north, so that's where business and capital are going.  So we get data centers in hot desert states like Arizona and Texas, places where the laws of thermodynamics suggests they shouldn't be at all.   

The best place on the continent for data centers would be in northern Canada on the shores of their big lakes (Great Bear Lake, Great Slave Lake).  The area is almost devoid of people and development due to the harsh climate, so you wouldn't be gobbling up valuable real estate.  But data centers are strategic infrastructure, so realpolitik means they should be built in the contiguous 48 states, so with that in mind, I'd ideally put them in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan.

Anyway, just my two cents.   

If AI cannot answer a question, the response should be, "That question cannot be answered with the information provided.  Please do your own research."

Posing as a search engine and "answering" questions should mean that the answers are correct or that they point us TO the research. 

When AI responds with a definitive answer (and that answer is incorrect) that is not user error.  That is a programing error...and it should be corrected. 

Not sure I'm ready to hand over any important information or tasks if the incorrect responses will be "user error" any time there is a mistake. 

If someone picks up a book filled with information and that information is WRONG, I would not blame the reader.  That would be the author.