Roughly 200 accounts from a suspected Chinese bot farm have quietly tried to influence Americans to oppose AI data centers on social media, X said Thursday night.
  • _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    21·
    3 days ago

    Pretty sure it’s mostly data centers that are fueling America’s data center rage: My bills have skyrocketed and these fuckers got sweetheart deals on everything from power supply to totally avoiding any accountability for fucking up the environment, all to make rich, corrupt assholes richer.

    Oh, and the power companies? Also brazenly corrupt.

    Plenty that we all can and should criticize China about, but this is bullshit.

      • _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        The same shitbags shoveling it into every single God damned thing they can so they can attempt to sustain their sham of a business model at great societal, environmental, and financial cost?

        IDK, just spitballing ideas here…

  • chloroken@lemmy.mlEnglish
    31·
    2 days ago

    Can China secretly fuel America’s desire to take showers and read books too

  • Gsus4@programming.devEnglish
    4·
    3 days ago

    Yeah, this is like saying russia is fueling the EU’s housing and standard of living crisis or saying that murica was fueling the protests in Iran before the tramp attack. If that were even the case, why let your worst enemies be your best critics?

  • dance_ninja@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    3 days ago

    The original article is from Axios. They do point out that there’s organic opposition, but the title is definitely sensational and arguably disinformation.

    Now, even if they actually are adding extra to the conversation, there’s still plenty of people unhappy about data centers. If foreign bots were adding noise to the Cornell case, does that invalidate what happened to Jane Doe?

    We see the videos from town halls, we see the pictures of the water, we hear the recordings of the noise pollution. We see all the extra infrastructure that sometimes cuts through people’s property.

    There are legitimate concerns that people want to be addressed.

    • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      5·
      3 days ago

      Yeah “fuelling the fire” is absolutely wrong. You don’t get the kind of spontaneous grass roots action across the country with any amount of social media activism. The headline is straight up misinformation.

      Maybe “fanning the flames” would be acceptable, but, honestly, why even spend the time to write an article about a butterfly flapping its wings in China when talking about a hurricane in Texas.

  • trojanbark@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    3 days ago

    I’m no fan of the CCP but come on, it’s greed and delusions of grandeur by elites all over the world fueling this bullshit

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    3 days ago

    including 200 accounts “posting in a manner that could manipulate a legitimate debate about American AI and energy policy,” the team said in a tweet.

    200 accounts is fucking nothing…

    Claiming that is “fueling” anything makes as much sense as me saying the 1992 Dream Team won Olympic Basketball because Spike Lee watched from his couch in NYC.

    It might have happened, but it didn’t change the result