• yesman@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    All that electricity ain’t free, and the TechBros sure don’t want to pay the light bill. It’s not good enough that LLMs and their successors be useful and successful. Unless they change the whole economy, lots of somebodies have been burning trillions of dollars.

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      Its effectively a stochastic ponzii scheme where instead of being spent they just turn the money directly into entropy to noise-up all knowledge. It might genuinely ha:e been more productive to light it all on fire.