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Well, AI made our search unusable dogshit. But AI also made us miss our climate goals, so (apnews.com)

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[–] Specal 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for proving me wrong, this actually helps my argument however that LLMs and crypto aren't the boogeyman these people claim it to be, and that it's just more likely a distracting talking point to stop people talking about issues that actually matter

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

They are a waste of energy. No one actually used cryptocurrency, so it's not a large part of actual usage. It's still wasteful.

LLMs are stupidly being trained on a lot of irrelevant data, which is causing electricity usage to increase when it should decrease. A simple Google search shouldn't take that much energy.