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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?

It's called "rich people have too much money to spend but also are conditioned to spend everyone else's money but their own"

Could also be a fear that if they stop people will realize it's a house of cards and they'll lose their shirts. Or worse, the emperor's new clothes scenario where everybody has bought in and even after their foolishness is exposed to all, they still pretend like nothing happened