I ABHOR how normalised AI has become on platforms around the World Wide Web

It's lazy and a ultimatumon effort and autodidatic capacity.

You are actively resorting to waste hydropower energy and drag us into potential water shortage pandemonium just to lobotomized what could've been a perfectly good joke.

This is one of the online exertions that treasonous vermin Trump wants you to enact to entail his horrible totalitarian deforestation and greenhouse gas emissions .

Stop appeasing to that oligarch genocide funding clown and his immoral calavry of fascist oppressors who operates utilities that are primarily made to pollute our ecosystem and increase climate change and ocean levels raising.

If I ever see another shitty No-effort AI Picture like this again, I will actively and violently scratch out my eyes with a rusty garden weasel wrapped in mint condition barbed wire and sandpaper the wounded sockets shut so I could never see slop take control of meme subculture.

Is it that sophisticated to edit Trump's head over a keyboardist's anatomy?

Your writing is shit, buddy.

Bluesky leftists really like using AI for some reason

This post looks like it was written by an ai that had a stroke.

Not reading all that. Free Palestine!

the - sau - rus

Maybe use an LLM to clean it up

It’s like Joey with a thesaurus.

No reason to read it.

OP is more than mildly annoyed.

Yelling from his front porch. Shaking his fist. While reposting slop.

As with pollution, the biggest contributers are not the individual consumers.

No, your AI prompts aren’t causing an energy crisis

Did you eat a thesaurus?

I liked the imagery of you scratching your eyes out.

Don't mind the people shitting on your writing! It's fine.

Also, I wonder about this. I don't like using GenAI for a few reasons, one of them is the environmental impact, but it's by no means the biggest. Not even close. It really is barely a reason at all.

It's a tool... I think it's immorally constructed and mostly in bad taste, but the environment is really a much deeper failure than the individual, I think. I don't think campaigning against people using something mindlessly, ignorantly perhaps, blithely even, does much good, when you could spend that time convincing them that the big stuff, and there's big stuff like data centers if we wanna just stick to AI, should be banned or regulated to oblivion.

"Don't use GenAI" is fine, but "Data centers suck" results in the same thing and doesn't attack the individual for some perceived moral failing for doing something innocuous while surrounded by terrible shit.

Hopefully you get what I'm getting at!

They still contribute by counting as usage to help justify more datacenters for training.

You do realize they're exctinct?

Doesn't count nearly as much as all the water used to farm alfalfa in the desert for the Saudis. AI sucks, this is just a way for corporate AI to push blame on consumers. They want people to push this line cause it's catchy and easily countered.

The ironic thing is that this post reads like it was written by an AI trained on only thesauruses.

At least it isn't AI.

I'll take irritation fueled spelling error littered rants over a succinct, correctly parsed AI slop response any day of the week

Honestly, just take a generic picture of any band and just use paint or gimp to slap their faces on. Hell doesn't even have to be good

Ouch. The stupid thing is that this existed 4 years ago too. This doesn’t have to be anything AI. We’ve been photoshopping since the printing press was a thing.

What a misplaced post to rant about a tech that may have nothing to do with the picture.

Even just cloud storage uses a surprising amount of energy. I’ve my students calculate a price per rick roll just to start seeing that there are actual energy costs and usage associated with things like google search, storing a cloud file, etc. I forget the paradox name, but we’ve made storing files and the cloud (that is, using other people’s computers) so easy and efficient that we are now using even more energy.

Bro fell out of the thesauraus tree and hit every branch on the way down

Then they will be yelled at for that. There’s no winning for someone like them. And someone else in the thread still said it looks like AI as it is.

Anyone know any studies comparing the energy usage of an AI image generator vs manually photo shopping. If a person spends say a half hour on a computer finding a photo and editing it in photoshop to this quality it could cost as much electricity as an image generator.

I think people are starting to overestimate the energy usage of AI while underestimating everything else we do. Like an image like this would take my computer ~30 seconds to generate, meanwhile I'll use my computer for hours at a time to play games and don't think much of that.

I can't tell if it's a joke, it's so comical.

So it’s still about the leftists ???

Correct me please but when we have an AI pic with Trump and Netanyahu it’s still about the leftists?

Thesauri? Thesaures?

calculate a price per rick roll

So... how much is it? It must be significantly more than a goatse.

I didn't realize people shut off their computers after having AI do something they might not have otherwise done anyway. Brains, yes. Computers, no.

It would take 30-60 seconds for one image. But the chance of getting the right one is slim. You'd probably generate hundreds, settle on one, then modify that one further. Depending on how precise you want it, it could take over an hour of GPU use. Services that do it online are doing the same thing in the background, maybe generating even more and iterating and evaluating them. All while using many GPUs at once. This isn't so bad for an image, but videos are way more resource intensive.

Thesauropods

They do actually. And for the people not running local models, the idea of cloud computing is that once you're done with it, someone else takes over. If you're talking about the necessity of it all, sure, but we're also not exactly advancing the human race by being on Lemmy are we?

The nerdiest of dinos.

How can you tell? It might very well be considering how many fancy words were used there. Nothing about that reads as not-AI.

If you ask me, the ones doing this type of shit are either plants from the other side and/or unknowingly one of them.

I got no issue demonizing anyone and anything that uses genAI ( not the normal stuff you get from phone 10 years ago that are basically just over glorified filters, got different issues with them ) for image generation no matter the use. So I am absolutely with you on hating the image.

One of my fellow journalists writes like this. We have to tone it down for publication. A lot.

Views on AI have nothing to do with left or right. It's actually split right down the middle on both sides.

But the left wouldn't be the left if we weren't fucking fighting each other all the time instead of the right.

Lemmy try not to unnecessarily divide the left challenge (impossible)

Let me guess, people were supposed to edit and rewrite the AI output to "make it theirs"!

If we take the AI industry's reports in good faith, not counting the training, the computer the prompting was done wasn't used for other things afterwards, the AI one-shotted the image and the user didn't ask for revisions (which "anti-slop" AI boosters are against), etc.

The industry paid a lot of money to influencers like Taylor Lorenz to do some entryism.

Can we also talk about how his #1 song is promoting heterosexuality? More than 80 % of children who heard Shape of You in the 2010s now identify as heterosexual, and it continues to air on the radio and show up on streaming services without as much as a content warning. What the fuck?

I'm not pro-AI if that's what you're asking.

I'd rather be a lousy illiterate doofus than a gutless GPT-reliant hypocrite.

a ultimatumon effort and autodidatic capacity

Copypasta?

"It’s lazy and a ultimatumon effort and autodidatic capacity."

dafuk

We appear to agree that AI simply increases the amount of energy usage rather than supplanting it, and that energy-intensive AI data centers are the norm for AI usage (such as the use OP is talking specifically about).