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Which, if you think about it, is so absurd because the average LLM is probably more costly in terms of energy used and overall ecological damage than a traditional employee anyway, but since those are economic externalities, the CEOs don't really care because they don't see the impact directly on their spreadsheets as it's the LLM companies paying for power and wrecking nature, while they're just paying for access to the compute power.