Because among people who defend the arms industry, there is no disagreement on the expenditure being a negative. The defenders argue the expenditure is bad but necessary to ‘keep us safe.’ LLMs are 100% unnecessary. Their primary use is as an investment scam hype generator. It won’t get us AGI. It won’t make any profitable businesses or new ideas. It can’t. So, all that expenditure is actually waste, and is being wasted at a time when societies around the world are more worried than ever about wasting energy and water.
Because among people who defend the arms industry, there is no disagreement on the expenditure being a negative. The defenders argue the expenditure is bad but necessary to ‘keep us safe.’ LLMs are 100% unnecessary. Their primary use is as an investment scam hype generator. It won’t get us AGI. It won’t make any profitable businesses or new ideas. It can’t. So, all that expenditure is actually waste, and is being wasted at a time when societies around the world are more worried than ever about wasting energy and water.