I took it as more of a recognition of the downsides to LLM tech that the hype train tends to ignore, as well as the legal / moral / ethical gray areas that exist in both training those models and determining who is liable for what they output.
> While they do this, they also use vast amounts of energy and are happy using all the GPUs you can throw at them which is a problem we’ve seen before in the field of cryptocurrencies.
> While they do this, they also use vast amounts of energy and are happy using all the GPUs you can throw at them which is a problem we’ve seen before in the field of cryptocurrencies.
"Vast amounts of energy", "happy using all the GPUs you can throw at them", and then the random cryptocurrency reference to evoke all the bad stuff associated with those.
Edit: I do think you're making a fair observation, I just feel there are a few reasons not to draw too strong of a conclusion from it