> Like, what in the good god damn are we using all this energy for?

Bad AI porn, terrible AI music, AI scams and completely devastating the labor market.

And based on the recent Anthropic/Pentagon rift... I guess also creating autonomous kill-bots and doing mass surveillance.

Just a bunch of super cool stuff.

You left out overthrowing governments with customized targeted propaganda, jamming citizen discussion with noise, artificially creating and nourishing contrarian cells in democratic societies. The machines will now be programming people.