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aparrish@friend.camp ("allison") wrote:

i guess fundamentally i'm not convinced that whatever amount useful functionality has emerged from generative AI (and i think the jury's still out on whether that amount is non-zero) couldn't have been achieved in more cost-effective, equitable and sustainable ways by having taken the money and resources we've shoveled into gen AI and investing them elsewhere

("sustainable" in the sense of environmentally sustainable but also "can we keep this in a working state" sustainable)