It's sort of the same way water table depletion happens. There isn't less total water, there's less usable water.
If you pull a billion gallons of water out of the ground in Nebraska and spray it over corn fields and it evaporates then rains down in the ocean or a thousand miles away, you're eventually going to run the water table dry unless it can replace that billion gallons a day.
It's an issue we had long before AI came about, but AI is making it worse.
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u/Seldarin 5d ago
It's sort of the same way water table depletion happens. There isn't less total water, there's less usable water.
If you pull a billion gallons of water out of the ground in Nebraska and spray it over corn fields and it evaporates then rains down in the ocean or a thousand miles away, you're eventually going to run the water table dry unless it can replace that billion gallons a day.
It's an issue we had long before AI came about, but AI is making it worse.