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AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast
(arstechnica.com)
this post was submitted on 31 Jan 2026
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Devil's Advocate: This was used for entertainment, if you think this is a huge waste of electricity then so is gaming en especially flying.
If you criticize people using AI for entertainment then you also need to criticize people who take flights on holiday, as that's a LOT more damaging for the environment.
Nah. I can be mad at both.
If you're mad at both, great. But I see a lot of hypocrisy.
People getting angry at others using AI because of the environment, but then taking flights on holiday when they could take a train.
It's like back then when crypto was a thing. People will studiously ignore that data centers are a drop in the ocean of energy consumption compared to the value they produce, and that even futile uses are not that significant in the grand scheme of things.
This looks more to me like leaving the lights on in every unoccupied room in the house