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[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

They loved it too much and now it costs more than paying a living wage to a human being. The end goal of AI was always to cut cost and layoff people. The best sabotage right now is to setup a script that constantly prompts an LLM for something useless. I would recommend it if it didn't waste so much energy and clean water. But it would send a message. AI is not cheaper, it never was. Even with today's outrageous token prices, LLM companies are still bleeding money per user. It will only get more expensive as data center contracts fall through and the investment craze fizzles out.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 6 points 1 day ago

the AI companies are hoping the ones buying the LLM subscriptions to be the suckers and losers.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I would recommend it if it didn’t waste so much energy and clean water.

I wouldn't. It's not possible to do meaningful validation of a process that has AI in the loop because it is not repeatable and there is no reliable explainability. So for anything where money or lives are at stake, it's not worth a shit. Same goes for anything where the company is held liable for false statements.

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I meant as a means of corporate sabotage.