i for one welcome our robot overlords

I've mentioned using AI in a previous post, and having just skimmed Bluesky it seems like a guilty secret, where any form of AI is wrong, they're building datacentres everywhere that are using up power and water, which is true but there's a certain irony in posting this on social media - where do you think [insert name of social media site here] is located? There's a server somewhere humming away while you rail against AI, there's one humming away while you read this, as someone who used to work in a datacentre they're nothing new, yes I appreciate that AI uses way more power and resources than other technologies but unless you live in a cave I don't really think you can take the moral high ground.

I use AI at work (we're encouraged to), and at home I have a subscription to Claude (mainly for Claude Code) which I have used to build and refine my home network. Of course I could have done this without AI but to achieve what I wanted would have taken months, possibly years. I've seen a comment that it's used by people who are too lazy to learn to do something, well I guess guilty as charged but you could say that washing machines are used by people who are too lazy to scrub their clothes by hand. Where do you draw the line? My philosophy such as it is is that I won't use it for anything 'creative', I was hashing out the plot to a potential work of fiction recently and using it for research (because to an extent it's not much more than a glorified search engine) and it started suggesting tweaks to the plot and situations within the story... no. Just give me the background and I'll do the rest. I've seen AI 'art' for sale and it looks atrocious so I'd rather pay for a print from someone who's actually taken the time to make the thing themselves.