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Re:The AI Reporter That Took My Old Job Just Got Fired by heresie-dabord on Tuesday November 26, 2024 @10:18PM (#42252571)
> Author feeds bullet points into ChatGPT which burns CPU cycles producing paragraphs of fluff.

GOOG, AMZN, and MSFT reportedly need to use nuclear energy to power the LLM farms that we are told we must have.

One must ask who (or what) in this feedback loop of inanity is doing the most hallucinating.

[1] _ https://apnews.com/article/climate-data-centers-amazon-googl...

[2] _ https://www.npr.org/2024/09/20/nx-s1-5120581/three-mile-isla...

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Re:The AI Reporter That Took My Old Job Just Got Fired by wlesieutre on Tuesday November 26, 2024 @11:46PM (#42253017)
Then users turn around and feed the fluff into energy hungry summarizers because who has time for a 5 paragraph email that could’ve been a three point bulleted list?
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Re:The AI Reporter That Took My Old Job Just Got Fired by TeMPOraL on Wednesday November 27, 2024 @12:20AM (#42253167)
It would be a net win if it could normalize sending prompts instead of normal communication, which is not far in terms of useless waste of energy and space to LLM output that emulates it.
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