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Critics Say Tech Sector Profits From Wasteful AI Boom
Original: But here we run up against an unpleasant reality: the tech sector values the # LLM craze chiefly because it's outrageous
Commentators are arguing that the technology industry embraces the boom in large language models not because the technology is efficient, but because it burns enormous amounts of money and resources. Critics say executives and investors get richer the more is spent on computing power and energy, comparing the AI rush to a speculative fad that rewards waste rather than genuine usefulness, with concerns about its environmental and economic cost growing.
Why now: Ongoing debate over the massive energy and capital costs of the AI boom and who benefits from it.
tech sectorlarge language modelsAI industry
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