• KevonLooney
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    3 months ago

    They are a waste of energy. No one actually used cryptocurrency, so it’s not a large part of actual usage. It’s still wasteful.

    LLMs are stupidly being trained on a lot of irrelevant data, which is causing electricity usage to increase when it should decrease. A simple Google search shouldn’t take that much energy.