Hohsia [he/him]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 3 days agoDoing everything I can to convince myself that AI is not slowly becoming a religionhexbear.netimagemessage-square107fedilinkarrow-up1177arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up1177arrow-down1imageDoing everything I can to convince myself that AI is not slowly becoming a religionhexbear.netHohsia [he/him]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square107fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaresp3ctr4llinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agoIts a fancy autocomplete algorithm. That is crowd sourced. And requires entire nuclear reactors to power only itself and nothing else. … … People were freaking out over cryptomining farms. This is so much worse.
minus-squaresewer_rat_420 [he/him, any]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 days agoWe are entering an era where the goal is to consume as much energy as possible - not for any benefit or tangible productivity, but solely for “growth”
Its a fancy autocomplete algorithm.
That is crowd sourced.
And requires entire nuclear reactors to power only itself and nothing else.
…
… People were freaking out over cryptomining farms.
This is so much worse.
We are entering an era where the goal is to consume as much energy as possible - not for any benefit or tangible productivity, but solely for “growth”