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rvzyesterday at 10:40 PM1 replyview on HN

So not only AI is consuming more energy than than the entire bitcoin network is [0], it is also accounts for more than half of cybercrimes and digital scams in Africa.

I don't think you can even dispute this. AI will be the one to cause the next financial crisis.

[0] https://www.cell.com/joule/abstract/S2542-4351(25)00142-4


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gruezyesterday at 10:52 PM

>AI will be the one to cause the next financial crisis.

So what's the implication here? It sounds like you want AI canceled or curtailed, and if you apply the same logic to the internet in the mid 90s, you would have correctly called out the dotcom bubble. Does that we mean we should have also canceled the internet?

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