the "i would never buy an NFT, just think of all the energy they pointlessly burn through" crowd sure has come around fast on "haha i got ChatGPT to write a poem about my butt"
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the "i would never buy an NFT, just think of all the energy they pointlessly burn through" crowd sure has come around fast on "haha i got ChatGPT to write a poem about my butt"
I'd say writing poems about one's butt is a much better use of that energy
I mean, doesn't the poem stop requiring exponentially-increasing energy once it's complete? Especially if "complete" includes the printing process?
I was going to say something about how running a model doesn't take nearly as much energy as training one does, but given how much people run trained gpt models I guess that probably flips over pretty quick
On some level I think a combination of a) it coming right after the crypto/NFT shit b) it usually being presented as a toy or a 'productivity tool' with a lot of outright lies about what it's doing or how it helps and c) it often being pushed upon users unasked or simply not having an obvious malicious intent towards the user/end consumer.
Optimistically I think people are just very tired and find themselves wanting to poke the new thing with a stick a little before it falls apart anyway like the last thousand things of the sort.
Pessimistically... I kinda find myself wondering if any actual arguments against crypto/NFTs made more of an impact on people than the fact that cryptobros are just outright fucking annoying...
NFTs don't even consume much energy anymore since all of the major blockchains moved to proof-of-stake, but that still doesn't make them a good idea