The toll of generative AI
 

"generative AI's toll includes massive data centers consuming city-sized quantities of energy and water (Brodie 2023; Hogan 2024); armies of underpaid data annotators in the Global South (Regilme 2024); corporate consolidations of media and material infrastructures (Narayan 2023); and unprecedented degrees of pornographic exploitation (Schurig, Coehlo, and Azevedo 2025). Still other variations on the AI enterprise involve unaccountable algorithms making life-or-death decisions in public benefits, policing, and war (Eubanks 2018, Gray 2025, Hung and Yen 2023)."

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