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Attached: 1 image #LLMs are a fucking scourge. Perceiving their training infrastructure as anything but a horrific all-consuming parasite destroying the internet (and wasting real-life resources at a grand scale) is delusional. #ChatGPT isn't a fun toy or a useful tool, it's a _someone else's_ utility built with complete disregard for human creativity and craft, mixed with malicious intent masquerading as "progress", and should be treated as such. https://pod.geraspora.de/posts/17342163

"In exchange for mere crumbs of their fortune, this Big Tech fraternity receives three extraordinary gifts: massive public contracts; the removal of regulatory safeguards against the dangers of their methods and products – autonomous vehicles, AI-controlled "bots" and drones, massive increases in electricity consumption; and finally, huge bargaining power, legitimized by the state, in their dealings with workers, suppliers, competitors, and the rest of us." https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/2025/01/04/yanis-varoufakis-former-greek-finance-minister-big-tech-giants-have-moved-into-trump-s-oval-office_6736701_23.html #USA #Trump #BigTech #Oligopolies