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(Obligatory, "oh thank God it's not the game engine")
I like where Ed's at on this issue, and have all along. I wonder if there's any analysis to link NFTs and blockchain boosters back to the AI pushers as well? In both cases, you've got technology that require huge amounts of GPU power. How much AI hype was over-leveraged NFT scammers trying to shift their compute power into the next profitable scam?
Metaverses too are GPU hungry, not as much though, too consumer focused.
Maybe next we'll see a return to streaming games, but in VR with rented/subsidized rigs?
Shall we brainstorm other ways that running GPUs at 99% capacity at all times can be used to bilk suckers out of their money?
that was my exact reaction when the thread popped up — it took me a couple seconds to realize the article was authored by Ed and not some asshole in the gaming-to-fascism pipeline still upset because the Godot engine rightfully bans assholes from their collaborative spaces
literally the same VCs
compute power to some extent, or repurposing wired-up crypto mining data centres
I expect there will be a big push to figure out how to use GPU as generic compute resources, regardless of the drawbacks or inefficiencies. No way these corps are just going to let hundreds of thousands of high end GPU modules sit idle after how much damn money they spent.