In my opinion, AI just feels like the logical next step for capitalist exploitation and destruction of culture. Generative AI is (in most cases) just a fancy way for cooperations to steal art on a scale, that hasn’t been possible before. And then they use AI to fill the internet with slop and misinformation and actual artists are getting fired from their jobs, because the company replaces them with an AI, that was trained on their original art. Because of these reasons and some others, it just feels wrong to me, to be using AI in such a manner, when this community should be about inclusion and kindness. Wouldn’t it be much cooler, if we commissioned an actual artist for the banner or find a nice existing artwork (where the licence fits, of course)? I would love to hear your thoughts!
People are so dramatic over AI
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.
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?
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
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.
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