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Re:AI bots are now outperforming humans in solving CAPTCHAs by rezonant on Sunday December 17, 2023 @06:46AM (#38672212)
Dirty energy is (often) cheap, so that's the energy the bad actors will use. I don't know that incentivizing bad actors to waste energy in a climate crisis is the best way to fight this problem.

You might correctly claim clean energy is often cheaper, but you must also consider the regions in which they'll get away with nefarious activity, and whether those areas have made the investments into making clean energy cheap.

Re:AI bots are now outperforming humans in solving CAPTCHAs by berkes on Sunday December 17, 2023 @07:26AM (#38672388)
I was specifically talking about "ASIC resistant crypto mining".
Re:AI bots are now outperforming humans in solving CAPTCHAs by andrepd on Sunday December 17, 2023 @10:07AM (#38673317)
>Dirty energy is (often) cheap, so that's the energy the bad actors will use

Hmm, I don't get this, surely all actors will want the cheapest energy, no? The problem being the underlying one, that the dirty energy doesn't pay its externalities and is thus cheaper than renewables.

Re:AI bots are now outperforming humans in solving CAPTCHAs by pixl97 on Sunday December 17, 2023 @10:56AM (#38673660)
My guess is most bad actors will just use stolen energy (your computer with a botnet on it).