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this post was submitted on 11 May 2025
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oh those run on pixie dust and fairy farts huh?
in fact, because they're distributed amongst thousands (presumably) volunteer pcs, they're eating up cycles that aren't optimized so are much less efficient at their task compared to specialized gpus and asics.
there's no free lunch.
There's no asics and specialized gpus for this sort of thing. We've also developed foss workers that are indeed more optimized. Also a lot of our volunteers use solar power.
I any case, yes of course it consumes some electricity, but all digital entertainment does and as I said we're comparable to AAA gaming , so I don't see why you're singling that out.
I didn't single out anything, I despise the entire spectrum bud. There's no free lunch for AI.
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I think you should, it's fuck_ai, lol,
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Did you wander in here to advocate for your energy gobblin AI thinking we'd go "oh it's distributed consumption SO THAT'S OK"?
Honestly?