People have very little understanding of how computers work in general, and somehow that has translated into a total misunderstanding of what AI is - an LLM is not a magic box that knows everything, it just has a very complicated opaque way of transforming information. But it is a God to people, like a magic genie in their pocket. I get it though because it is made to feel like it is magic and knowd everything.

[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Its a fancy autocomplete algorithm.

That is crowd sourced.

And requires entire nuclear reactors to power only itself and nothing else.

...

... People were freaking out over cryptomining farms.

This is so much worse.

[–] sewer_rat_420@hexbear.net 4 points 3 weeks ago

We are entering an era where the goal is to consume as much energy as possible - not for any benefit or tangible productivity, but solely for "growth"