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It's useful at sucking down all the compute we complained crypto used
Yeah it's funny how that little tidbit just went quietly into the bin not to talked about again.
The main difference is that crypto was/is burning huge amounts of energy to run a distributed ponzi scheme. LLMs are at least using energy to create a useful tool (even if there is discussion over how useful they are).
I argue AI is much easier to pull a profit from than a currency exchange also 🙂