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Amazon investigating engineers who criticized AI data center expansion

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by fred_is_fred

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A practice which apparently is illegal in Seattle:
"The complaint accuses Amazon of violating a Seattle ordinance that prohibits companies from discriminating against employees for their political ideology, race, religion and age, among other things."
Wonder how this will go.

by lovich

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Eh, they really shouldn’t be using Amazons name for their group while doing advocacy in their private life.
I had to get pretty far down in the article to find that bit, when I was fully ready to pull out the pitchforks against Amazon initially.

by aaron695

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by kittikitti

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These engineers likely didn't even know what they were talking about. They probably heard that "AI is thirsty", asked no further questions, and took the podium to regurgitate talking points. There are numerous ways to discuss the issue but they're not even asking the right questions, such as greenhouse gas emissions. The amount of grifters whose only expertise is to criticize AI is astronomical while the entire conversations about real and proven causes of climate change is silenced. I'm sure if we had never invented LLM AI, global warming would have never happened /s