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Critics Say Tech Sector Profits From LLM Waste
Original: But here we run up against an unpleasant reality: the tech sector values the # LLM craze chiefly because it's outrageous
Commentators are arguing that the technology industry embraces the large language model boom mainly because it is so wasteful and resource-hungry. The claim circulating is that tech investors and executives grow richer the more money, energy and computing power get poured into AI, meaning inefficiency is a feature rather than a flaw of the current craze. The argument frames the AI spending spree as a grift that rewards destruction over genuine usefulness.
Why now: Ongoing debate over the enormous costs and questionable returns of the AI boom is fueling criticism of the industry's incentives.
tech sectorlarge language modelsAI industry
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