One of the purposes of AI is automated waste & the Politics of Exhaustion.
1. Each of these mass produced email campaigns wastes energy, especially fossil fuel energy.
The fossil fuel industry is very invested in keeping up demand, even if its goosed artificially.
2. Gridlocking
The wealthy are testing a variety of cyberwarfare mechanisms & predatory forms of capitalism.
Hogging bandwidth & hard drive/cloud space.
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