OpenAI's New Data Centers Will Draw More Power Than the Entirety of New York City, Sam Altman Says (futurism.com)

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[-] cmbabul@slrpnk.net 13 points 7 months ago

Using more power than millions of human beings for a grift. Frank Herbert was right, destroy the thinking machines

[-] toast@retrolemmy.com 7 points 7 months ago

What, do you think all those extra fingers just spring from nothing?

[-] echo@lemmy.tf 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

And we're paying for this shit! What is it going to take to make these shitty AI companies pay for their own energy? They don't even have a good product to show for all the waste.

[-] Ascrod@midwest.social 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Just one more billion bro. I promise bro just one more billion and we'll have AGI next year bro.

[-] paraphrand@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

All so we can generate ai slop of him being a weird little freak.

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