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Critique: "Deathcult" strategy financializes AI, driving energy consumption

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The author criticizes the current trend of commodifying and financializing new technologies, particularly Large Language Models (LLMs). This approach, termed the "deathcult" strategy, involves taking a useful technology, framing it within a massive financial narrative, centralizing control, and then monetizing it as a platform. The author argues that the social consequences of this process are often dismissed as accidental, drawing parallels to how LLMs have been marketed from interesting software to AI, AGI, and super-intelligence. This cycle, according to the piece, drives the construction of massive data centers and consumes vast amounts of energy. AI

IMPACT Critiques the financialization and hype cycle surrounding AI, suggesting it drives unsustainable energy consumption and centralization.

RANK_REASON Opinion piece critiquing the financialization and marketing of AI technology.

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Critique: "Deathcult" strategy financializes AI, driving energy consumption

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  1. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    The #deathcult is selling the future as #techshit We have done this before, we take a useful technology, wrap it in a huge financial story. We centralize it, tr

    The #deathcult is selling the future as #techshit We have done this before, we take a useful technology, wrap it in a huge financial story. We centralize it, try and monetize it to turn it into a platform. Then we pretend the social consequences were somehow an accident, it is wh…

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