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EarlG

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1. And for this we're ruining the environment,

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Fri Jan 30, 2026, 02:36 PM

20 hrs ago

driving up electricity costs, and committing IP theft on an industrial scale. All so this dipshit can convince himself that these things are actually conscious and not just copying and pasting human social media behavior.

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There's a social network for AI agents, and it's getting weird [View all] highplainsdem 20 hrs ago OP

And for this we're ruining the environment, EarlG 20 hrs ago #1

I was just going to say, "Doesn't this suck up all our water and electricity?" Scrivener7 20 hrs ago #2

Exactly. And Musk.is boasting that Grok just generated 5.5 billion images in a month. With the other AI image highplainsdem 20 hrs ago #5

Right. Let's fry the planet and everything on it to watch AI bots argue with each other. CousinIT 20 hrs ago #6

Quoting Marvin the robot in Hitchhikers' Guide to the Universe The Blue Flower 20 hrs ago #3

Except AI doesn't not have a brain, and are not very intelligent. Martin68 19 hrs ago #10

Abundant Iniquity dickthegrouch 18 hrs ago #11

I am really wondering if some really odd text messages that I have gotten... Hugin 20 hrs ago #4

This network is only a few days old, according to the article. highplainsdem 20 hrs ago #7

Since they are unregulated and essentially crowd sourced with a gold rush mentality... Hugin 20 hrs ago #9

Yeah, the're not really that good at math. funny fact. harumph 20 hrs ago #8

Gizmodo article, with a warning: highplainsdem 17 hrs ago #12

Your data could be leaked... reACTIONary 16 hrs ago #14

TechCrunch article: highplainsdem 16 hrs ago #13