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The Hidden Environmental Impact of AI
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Where are all the people that were so damn pissed with Bitcoins power consumption now?

Or was it never about the power consumption in the first place and now that little Timmy has an Ai buddy the waste of electricity is fine. SMH

It’s far more important that every country fixes how it legally generates power that isn’t green. Make burning coal illegal already.

You're literally responding to an article criticising the power consumption of ai. What do you mean where are the people? They're right here.

The one article that’s popped up in months of nothing. There was a larger response from people when it was something they saw as worthless using large quantities of power compared to the “helpful ai” that’s consuming the power now.

Shows that it never was about the environment in the first place. Hypocrites.

Criticisms of Bitcoin didn't really become popular until years after its introduction. Give it time.

So-called "AI" is worthless too so they'll get their turn.

I'd think there's some serious god damn overlap between the groups that are pissed about these things.

Or was it never about the power consumption in the first place and now that little Timmy has an Ai buddy the waste of electricity is fine. SMH

I don't think I want to waste my energy on hating these hypocrite Timmies since I haven't yet encountered a single one of them.

It's a different debate because bitcoiners lose literally nothing to green power laws and banning coal. AI users would see a reduction in output quality/speed.

Crypto bros would definitely not be happy, because it would make mining less profitable

Proof of work mining difficulty already auto adjusts to minimize profits. Taxes go up, difficulty goes down.

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