https://nitter.privacydev.net/ai_curio/status/1564878372185989120

AI consumes a lot of energy and water. Maybe not as much as crypto, but still, not something we can afford to use for mindless entertainment in our current climate catastrophe.

https://tb.opnxng.com/reachartwork/742453285743706112/re-ai-water-usage https://blog.giovanh.com/blog/2024/08/14/is-ai-eating-all-the-energy-part-1-of-2/

Activities like eating beef use more energy than AI models , therefour they contribute more to climate change (in whatever likely negligible ways compared to corporate entities like Shell , who we shoud focus on wen reversing climate change) than use of AI models . But there's no widespread moral panic over individual's beef consumption (closest you'll get are some kinds of vegans , but they stay fringe) compared to AI use

Crypto's exceptional bcus it's literally wasting energy with very limited use cases

Peops shouldn't be calling for death of an entire medium based on some thing subjective like its outputs being "soulless"

Simple text descriptions do not give the human meaningful control over the final piece, and that is why pretty much any artist worth their tittle is not using it.

What about AI-assisted art , which has more "human meaningful control" than simple (txt2img prompt|inpaint)ing then ?

Also, the irony that we are automating the arts, something which people enjoy doing, instead of the soul degrading jobs nobody wants to do, should not be lost on us.

Wasz initially onef those peops that didn't think art was automatable . Turns out I was wrong . Also not every artist enjoys every part of the process . Any one who ever does art in any serious capacity knows that , am sure some would find spending hours upon hours tweaking (pose|composition|colours|lighting placement|.*) before getting to the "fun parts" "soul degrading" . While AI art models doesn't automate everything , it can automate those with varying success

can’t trust anti AI peops to actually criticise the tech

Correct. It is well known that those who stem to financially benefit from the success of AI are more than willing to lie about it's true capabilities.

While I don't think you're wrong , that's not what I said

Wen I say can't trust anti AI art peops to criticise AI art tech , I'm including you . If you use AI "art" in scarequotes , you're part of the problem , most your criticisms are based on (things easily debunked|misinformation|subjectivities|.*)