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by bastien2 702 days ago
There is yet to actually be a use case for chatbots that isn't profit-motivated.

The entire effort to find a problem for them to solve has meant ecological harms at a scale that makes crypto mining seem trivial.

The data required has copyright and other commercial use restrictions on it. Much of the data being overtly restricted was never available for harvest to start with.

Given these facts, bringing and end to the LLMs an snaping techbros out of their latest delusion is a good thing.