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People are so dramatic over AI
For good fucking reason. AI wastes fresh water and ruins our climate while being terrible at what it does
Not correct if ran locally
It was still trained in a datacenter
Damage is already done and it's free. They can't monetize you using it. If anything, downloading it costs them money.
Also some models weren't trained with an obscene amount of compute, like deepseek, which used one data center for only 3.7 days.
I don't think it's fair to think of model training as a one-and-done situation. It's not like deepseek was designed and trained in one attempt. Every iteration of these models will require retraining until we have better continual learning implementations. Even when models are run locally, downloads signify demand, and demand calls for improved models, which means more training and testing is required.
Doesn't that mean the damage is already done?
Not all of it, but the majority, yes.
It seems to do simple illustration images just fine
Global fresh water demand will exceed supply by 40% by 2030
AI's projected water usage could hit 6.6 billion m³ by 2027
Drought and famine are going to kill billions in this century.
The artist you would have paid would have consumed more water than a query
I wouldn't have paid an artist to make my furry porn fetish video tho'
Who do you think makes it then? God?
It was a glib joke that I wouldn't have paid a creator to make $someRandomContentThatIWpuldntHaveSoughtOutAnyway. Honestly don't care for AI art on aesthetic or ethical grounds tbqh, just a throwaway comment on the internet.
I wonder how many people died because someone generated a silly banner.
Some people probably think that thousands will die because of that, while deciding to which exotic country they will travel by plane next month.
The whole crusade just seems so out of proportion
Ah, whataboutism, how refreshing.
A cool glass of 'this is no worse than that', with a little ice cube that represents the stability of our ecosystems. Very cool, very mindful
X being bad is no argument against doing something (even a little) about a different bad thing Y. Fuck excessive flight travel and fuck generative AI. There's no need to only pick one thing to hate.
Yep very true. I actually intended my comment as an agreement but I guess something got lost in translation, lol
I feel like it's just perseveration at this point. This tech exists, it's not going away, people just have to learn to live with that.