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Re:CrankGPT by LPisGood on Monday June 15, 2026 @10:44AM (#48542071)
Isn’t that a black mirror episode? Anyways, much like the Matrix, using humans for energy is insanely inefficient.
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Re:CrankGPT by thewebguyd on Monday June 15, 2026 @11:04AM (#48542348)
Yes, Fifteen million merits, one of my favorite episodes.
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Re:CrankGPT by RemingtonDavies on Monday June 15, 2026 @11:51AM (#48543094)
"What are we powering? Why are we powering it? For what?"
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Re:CrankGPT by fragmede on Monday June 15, 2026 @12:17PM (#48543508)
To generate pictures of cats driving trains and CRUD apps, apparently.
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Re:CrankGPT by Lwerewolf on Monday June 15, 2026 @12:25PM (#48543607)
At low effort (i.e. active recovery can-do-this-all-day-every-day) levels, it's quite efficient. That assumes that you're fine with whatever let's say ~120w continuous can get you, which is what the m5 max 16'' mbp peaks at (in my case) during inference (ds4-flash)... so I guess it's quite usable, actually :)

Imagine the work(out)station of the future.

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