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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 pushing back on the artificial intelligence boom, arguing the tech industry values large language models precisely because they consume enormous amounts of money, energy and computing resources. The claim: executives and investors get richer the more is spent on the fad, regardless of whether the technology delivers real value, making inefficiency a feature rather than a flaw of the current AI gold rush.

Why now: Growing public concern over the enormous energy, financial and environmental costs of the AI boom

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• But here we run up against an unpleasant reality: the tech sector values the # LLM craze chiefly because it's outrageously inefficient and destructive, always needing more and more. The tech grifters get richer the more money and resources are blown on the fad. Subsidiary… · mxchara@cyberpunk.lol · 89

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