“I’m going to paint a shitty picture” … while using enough electricity to power a small town for two months
That’s the training process. After that you can just run it with a single GPU, in a few seconds.
Yes, thankfully the reasonable tech companies offering these services have decided to stop the training process after it was done once. The insane increase in energy consumption and hardware manufacturing for datacenter components and accelerators is purely coincidental and has nothing to do with demand for gimmicky generative AI services. Let’s also conveniently ignore the increasing inference cost of more complex models, while we’re at it.
I wonder how many artists they could just pay for what they spend on all that…
Their goal isn’t to replace a few staff members, it’s to replace all of them, everywhere, across the globe. So they consider it a worthwhile investment. As to what we’ll do when 5 people are in control of, manufacturer, and create literally everything?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Gotta love it when people spread misinformation as confidently as you do.
I wouldn’t count things I read in an online forum called ‘comic strips’ as a source of information or disinformation
Misinformation and disinformation are not synonymous.
Gotta love it when people call bullshit on objective reality as confidently as you do.
The absolute irony.
Okay, show me where my 400W gpu generating an image in 5 seconds uses up the electricity of an entire town for two months.
AI uses 5x the electricity of a google search. It is just used a metric shitton. You don’t hear about people boycotting search engines though.
Funny comic.
On a serious note though - AI is advanced means of production. All of it might not be 100% production ready today, but it’s getting there soon. Our goal must be to seize this means of production (make AI companies publicly owned with a consumer cooperative operational model). Denying its existence only serves the interests of the bourgeoisie, as it makes us unprepared when it actually starts replacing jobs en masse.
