Comment by bloppe

19 days ago

They're the ones serving the expensive traffic. Wut if people were to form a volunteer bot net to waste their GPU resources in a similar fashion, just sending tons of pointless queries per day like "write me a 1000 word essay that ...". Could even form a non-profit around it and call it research.

Their apis cost money, so you’d be giving them revenue by trying to do that?

That sounds like a good way to waste enormous amounts of energy that's already being expended by legitimate LLM users.

  • Depends. It could shift the calculus of AI companies to curtail their free tiers and actually accelerate a reduction in traffic.