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[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 days ago (21 children)

I’m assuming that the OP has about the same drawing skills as me, which is to say, none. So in lieu of a tool to produce the cartoon for him, and (I bet) not willing to pay someone at least €20 to draw it, the only other option is that this comic would never have seen the light of day. Is that a better world for you?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (6 children)

Combining some other comments:

Not only is this an old joke and not even particularly interesting, it also took a shit load of resources for the machine to produce it. A human being eats a hamburger and makes a few nice things + remains alive but one of these algorithms will consume ludicrous amounts of energy just to copy a mediocre joke and only so many people will even see it.

Not every joke needs to be pushed to the world and not every amateur musician deserves a main stage(certainly not if they’re just playing covers). Art is wonderful in that there are certainly barriers but at the same time it is relatively cheap to get the materials to practice. I literally know of a homeless woman who people give paper and pencils to and she spends her time drawing to pass the time.

So, yes, the world is a worse place for having this “art”.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You heavily underestimate the resources required to produce a hamburger, and thus the environmental impact of a human creating such a comic, but you’re even then not wrong: AI is an excessively heavy power consumer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Someone can do other things with the energy from a hamburger is all I’m saying, and even if they do nothing but stay alive that’s already a better use of that energy. I also had thought about that and, to be fair, a hamburger is only a very small portion of the cow.

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