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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (5 children)

Shameless self promotion. But yes, this is exactly it!

https://mstdn.dk/@Gjoel/114238887293225107

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 hours ago (4 children)

Think of it this way: One simple web search takes one unit of energy. Doing that same search, but using an AI model instead, takes 10 units of energy. And finally, using AI to generate an image? That will take you up to 1,000 units. Which leads us to the extra environmental tax.

"There are also impacts of water usage, because these chips that run these models get very hot. And you need water to cool them down," said Bashir.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/mit-researchers-studying-impact-of-generative-ai-on-environment/ar-AA1I9kt9

Please stop killing the planet so a computer can make shitty pictures for you.

Not just because it's shitty content, but because it's killing the fucking planet. And thousand of idiots doing it over and over individually and "promoting" it like it's some fucking skill is making it exponentially worse.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

Units of units

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Optimistic understatement, mostly.

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