

Adding some extra CPU compute or ASICs for solving puzzles will not slow down a bandwidth-constrained bot. Bandwidth is still the bottleneck and cost factor. With the current state of AI investments, I bet they will go to great lengths to scrape every little bit of the internet at whatever internet bandwidth they have available.
How can generative AI even have programming errors like that? Everything it says it the result of the data it was trained on. So apparently it was trained on a lot of fascist conspiracy theories.