As long as we are talking about crypto, and I know this is shocking, turns out some people are using it for unsavory acts. It is okay if you want to sit down.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
whats up with these shit ass titles? It’s not even REMOTELY hidden, it takes two fucking seconds of googling to figure this shit out.
The entire AI industry was dependent on GPU hardware manufacturers, and nvidia is STILL back ordered (to my knowledge)
This is like saying that crypto has a hidden energy cost.
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 2 months ago
ComradeKhoumrag@infosec.pub 2 months ago
There’s cocaine on literally every US Dollar and that currency is backed oil, relatively speaking crypto is cleaner
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I am against the drug war and I think the cocaine thing was an urban legend. Also the US dollar is not backed up by oil.
ComradeKhoumrag@infosec.pub 2 months ago
The US Dollar is not only backed by oil, but also American banking imperialism.
Im against the war on drugs too. But speaking of drugs, weed is schedule 1, where Xanax is schedule 4 (low risk of abuse). It’s completely upside down and not accurate. That said, the harmfulness of the substance and being for or against the war on drugs is completely separate from the fact that there’s cocaine on literally every single dollar bill. Money is the dirtiest thing in general, and by those metrics, the US Dollar is dirtier
whoisearth@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Some people? The vast majority of the crypto eco system is grifters and get-rich-quick rubes.
GunValkyrie@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Perhaps you need a seat then. Lol
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
my brother in christ people are making child pornography using generative AI. Everything sucks and is awful.
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I don’t know what you want from me. I think it was pretty clear I was talking about crypto and badmouthing it. I won’t touch the child pornography generative AI issue with a ten foot pole and Covid mask.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
nothing, i’m just making the point that it doesnt matter what you look at, there’s terrible shit happening everywhere.
Ibuthyr@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
For you it might be clear. For the overwhelming majority of people, this is news. People don’t know shit about tech. Most would assume the AI thingy does its thing on the local computer.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Most would assume the AI thingy does its thing on the local computer.
good thing nvidia having a massive market cap isn’t a big news item, it’s worth noting that nobody is talking about all the hardware that microsoft and google are building, surely nobody will talk about the fact that nvidia is backordered for years on hardware.
It’s even better that modern consumer grade CPUs are marketing for the NPU bits they have.
markon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Or there are bigger fish to fry like coal power plants and wasted idle etc. shit Google’s AI search results are wasteful in some cases but I’ve found it to actually improve my experience but I use a mix of search engines. You can always use one without AI or turn it off. It’s being pushed into almost every search though which I really don’t think is useful, and it would be best if they cached the answers instead of regeneration on command. They may cache some though.
Halcyon@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
It’s hidden in the sense that the normal user does not see the cost on their energy bill. You perform a search and get the result in milliseconds. That makes it easy to imagine that it’s just a minor operation. It’s not like driving a car and watching the the fuel gauge and see the consumption.
Of course one can research how much energy Google consumes and find out the background – IF you’re interested. But most people just use tech and do not question or even understand.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
it’s hidden in the same sense that your closet is hidden.
Yet most people know they also have closets.