It doesn’t take that much energy and power to run an LLM or an image generator, and sure, it would take a lot with so many users connecting, across so many servers… but there’s just no way they’re not mining bitcoin. My math might not be mathing but it seems like AI doesn’t justify the power use and it seems like everybody’s lying.
Someone who knows more about this inform me of your opinions
They are both a waste of power. Just because one is less of a waste doesn’t make it a good choice.
I didn’t say it was a good choice, not sure I made any kind of statement you could nitpick or impose judgement upon me for, and if I did, I edited it out because I predicted you being insufferable. “I think they’re mining bitcoin” is not the exact same statement as “bitcoin is good” or “AI is good.” I don’t actually mind either bitcoin or AI, I think like alcohol they’re fine in moderation, but that’s not what my post is about.