Possible undisclosed AI promotion ad?
I've felt like I've been going crazy about this, and I NEED to say something, I may not have a big of a voice on any platform, but I still have a voice.
Recently I've been getting these videos on my feed, mainly Instagram reels. All of them are like this video and its always the same thing. They start with a dirty cup of water, explain the water is dirty because of AI datacenters, talk about the dangers of AI and the as for mentioned data centers, AND THEN PROMOTE AN "ECO" AI SERVICE CALLED ECOGPT.
When I saw two of these videos I didn't bat an eye, but I knew they we're similar. I just figured the two creators stole each other's videos because that happens all the time...but when I got a third, fourth, and fifth, I knew something was off. All of the videos we're far too similar, like a script. And that's when it hit me, these people are probably getting paid by EcoGPT to talk about the dangers of data centers and then promote an ai service without disclosing that it's an ad.
The reason why I'm so upset about this is because if I'm right about this being an undisclosed ad then they are using A REAL GENUINE PROBLEM OF PEOPLE NOT HAVING CLEAN WATER OR ANY WATER AT ALL BECAUSE OF BACKYARD DATA CENTERS to fearmonger people into using their "eCo" AI service...absolutely disgusting if it's true.
I don't have anything to prove this in all honesty, just the theories in my head but I believe it. I truly believe everything I typed here, and I want to bring attention to it. Luckily the comments on every single one of these videos that I've seen have some common sense to just say stop using AI altogether if you actually give a damn. I don't care if it "uses less water11!" "uses less energy!!!11!" or "plants trees every hundred searches!!11!!", generative AI is generative AI.
