• kibiz0r@midwest.social
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    4 months ago

    It’s wild how we went from…

    Critics: “Crypto is an energy hog and its main use case is a convoluted pyramid scheme”

    Boosters: “Bro trust me bro, there are legit use cases and energy consumption has already been reduced in several prototype implementations”

    …to…

    Critics: “AI is an energy hog and its main use case is a convoluted labor exploitation scheme”

    Boosters: “Bro trust me bro, there are legit use cases and energy consumption has already been reduced in several prototype implementations”

  • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    The root problem is capitalism though, if it wasn’t AI it would be some other idiotic scheme like cryptocurrency that would be wasting energy instead. The problem is with the system as opposed to technology.

  • Hubi@feddit.org
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    4 months ago

    It’s been a while since I’ve seen this meme template being used correctly