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   Eaton (eaton@phire.place)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 12:28:41 JST Eaton

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   • Astatide

   @astatide @inquiline My dark theory is that the crypto crash threatened to remove a major source of pointless resource-burning, so all the bros pivoted immediately to AI.

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     Astatide (astatide@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 12:28:43 JST Astatide

     Part of what bugs me about the “cheapness” of text/image generators is the externalised cost not just of labor theft, but of resources. Capital is currently subsidising the generation costs to destroy the labor market for these skills, but the huge chain of resource utilisation (mineral and oil/coal extraction, running the data centre, etc) is just fucking _wasted_ on the most inane horseshit imaginable. What a goddamn joke as we approach extinction.