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What are we DOING here? We're just meant to sit and act like this insane plagiarism and climate threat that requires more money than anything has ever cost is worth it? Are we meant to pretend that ChatGPT is worth this aimless, meaningless destruction of capital and our environment? For what?

Putting aside the real lack of any killer generative AI app or the very clear diminishing returns, it costs billions of dollars to train and run a model that costs billions more than it makes with no path to profitability of any kind. What are we doing? What is going on? Have we all gone mad?

I’ve really been unable to find a good example of a “killer app” arriving in anticipation, rather than things being recognised in hindsight as killer apps. Like *the web* or Tetris on the gameboy