• IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    1 month ago

    “I’m going to paint a shitty picture” … while using enough electricity to power a small town for two months

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        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.

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            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)_/¯

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      Gotta love it when people spread misinformation as confidently as you do.

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        I wouldn’t count things I read in an online forum called ‘comic strips’ as a source of information or disinformation

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        Gotta love it when people call bullshit on objective reality as confidently as you do.

        The absolute irony.

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          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.