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Firm that lets you rent out your idle Mac for AI inference workloads warns of plummeting token costs — Darkbloom network sees earnings drop to $1.23 a day as Anthropic tokens fall 77%. (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] Joelk111@lemmy.world 7 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Also folding at home. I basically figure you're donating your power consumption costs to science. I don't know that there will ever be a way to make that profitable to the user renting their computer, considering power costs.

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 hours ago

There are some crypto projects attached to boinc and f@h, like Gridcoin, that provide rewards for compute power. They are very much an added on layer that isn't really worth much in real world dollars though.