The bots are hungry.
AI is a pain in the neck
Bots and large language models are clogging the web and crowding out humans. AI is consuming lakes of fresh water and gigawatts of electricity. It is chewing up hundreds of billions of dollars with no sign of profit in sight. Tell me again why this is a good thing. Exhibit #1: I had realised that the Swedish word "flicka" means "girl" and I thought of the old book and TV show, My Friend Flicka (it's about a horse) and figured that must have been the origin of the name. The people I was with seemed a…