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> Uploading costs you nothing, and it can help the poor.

Could you expound more on this? Are you suggesting that less energy use in data centers would help the world's poor?

I read the suggestion as being that the world’s poor aren’t paying for AI tokens (or subscriptions) to generate software from prompts, and that sharing the _output_ is more beneficial to people. The reduction in energy waste is secondary, and benefits _everyone_.

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