• KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 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.

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      4 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.

    • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      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.

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          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.

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        4 months ago

        There’s cocaine on literally every US Dollar and that currency is backed by oil, relatively speaking crypto is cleaner

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            4 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

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        4 months ago

        Some people? The vast majority of the crypto eco system is grifters and get-rich-quick rubes.

    • Halcyon@discuss.tchncs.de
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      4 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.