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).
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bitwolf@lemmy.one 7 months agoIt’s useful at sucking down all the compute we complained crypto used
Womble@lemmy.world 7 months ago
bitwolf@lemmy.one 7 months ago
I argue AI is much easier to pull a profit from than a currency exchange also 🙂
Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Yeah it’s funny how that little tidbit just went quietly into the bin not to talked about again.