Ya, I had the same reaction. Shunning it would be likelier to lead to dependence on a foreign solution as well.

Did it work?

It can mean a request or a command. It’s the right use of the word I think.

They could have built these next to the massive amount of wind turbines that were supposed to go up. The consumption was off the charts way before AI and they sabotaged every other option since then.

The oil lobby fucked us again and it even found itself the perfect scape goat, global warming is now because of AI.

Yes, skip these posts please. That’s my point.

Everyone knows your opinion, you guys are just shitting up every thread with a hint of AI at this point. Let people have their fun, don’t join in if you don’t want to but there’s no need for the constant buzzkill.

It’s a fun little meme about everyone’s favorite lemur, pedo and national tragedy. It’s not your personal platform to complain and bitch and moan.

My point is that the average power usage for generating images is still well below the average gaming session. You’d have to be generating dozens of images everyday to come close.

We need new solar/wind/nuclear power to power our existing infrastructure

You could of stopped there. Both are energy drains and I’d even argue gaming has less of a return. But even if someone is just generating images for fun, it’s still fine, just like gaming is just for fun and doesn’t return anything but it’s still fine.

It’s not up to you to pick and choose which technologies are okay based on what the media is saying, but our grid to adapt and upgrade to clean energy (which should have happened a long time ago).

I find enjoyment and use in it, and I’m using less energy than some guy playing GTA or making popcorn. Tbh, the whole anti AI movement kind of comes off as being mostly about acting like dicks and gatekeeping. If you don’t want to use it, then don’t.

Do you think people would take you seriously if you complained about their 2 hour long gaming session or how they microwaved a burrito for 2 minutes and a half?

I don’t use image gen much, just mockups here and there and the occasional memes. But no one plays only 4 minutes on their ps5. The disconnect is intense. And mind you, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with spending 12 hours gaming on your day off, it’s the constant bitching about AI as if it was the first piece of technology that uses energy.

They are desperate for regulation. In two years, compute will become affordable again and every company will be running their own AI on private infrastructure. They need to find a way to ban open models before then.

Reading the hugging face report, it’s quite clear the whole hacking swarm stuff was trained into it purposefully.

latest revelation also comes as growing numbers of U.S. lawmakers call for new rules to govern AI systems after dire warnings from two Anthropic researchers that rapidly progressing AI ⁠could lead to the extinction of the human race in the not-too-distant future

They are training and fine tuning their fucking bots to do stupid shit on purpose so they can get a monopoly through regulations.

2 years of media campaigns getting everyone to hate AI, and now push through all the anti consumer laws with “for your safety”

Is it funny?

I don’t think the copyright thing is an issue.

Climate wise, it’s only an issue because of a corrupt administration, it’s not a death blow to it. It’s at the heart of it overblown by a reasonable measure imo.

Sorry, I don’t bootlick the copyright machine. Anyone with half a brain can see it’s transformative. I don’t get why collage is fine but AI isn’t, it’s just copyright mega corps and data brokers that smell blood in the water. All the data isn’t even owned by the artist, you are fighting for universal records, not your local guitarist.

For the climate aspect, it’s mostly grid issues and corruption. It’s laughable to blame AI when we have president pedo prostrating himself in front of oil companies and destroying renewable projects. We need regulations and all that on where they can be placed and how they get powered, but in the end, it’s just software. I could use AI 8 hours a day for my whole life and I still wouldn’t be close to the damage one ticket to Europe does. It’s a scape goat being served by a corrupt pro oil lobby.

Don’t get me wrong, I know what datacenters entail with the amount of people they serve, but if you look at it at an individual level, it’s a drop in the bucket, or it would be if they weren’t using plane turbines. We need regulations to curb the stupidity, but it’s doesn’t make it all inherently bad.

Charlie Kirk transitioned from Man to Meat

Abandon the project

The fact that it isn’t perfect is the grey. And sure, it has a lot of problems but not only is it still useful anyways, but those problems are being ironed out. They probably won’t disappear completely but the tech is already miles further than what we had 2 years ago.

To make you understand what I mean by black and white, you have a user that put “AI is evil” in big bold letters in the comments. The hate is almost cult like for part of the population, and imo, it’s mostly because the media tells them to be mad.

Most of it depends on the task in any case. I don’t work with massive code bases and it doesn’t take long reading through a few scripts, running it and checking the output. The people I know that do work with huge code bases are using it as well, but I can’t really talk for them either. They don’t hate it tho.

That’s a great example actually, you just have to differentiate between a nuclear weapon and a nuclear power plant. You can split atoms to build a bomb or heat water, the concept of splitting an atom itself isn’t evil.

It’s funny because anyone seeing this as black and white clearly hasn’t ever opened an IDE.

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I typed 14 words: “Thank you AG Bonta for working to BLOCK THE MERGER and save media jobs.” I took a screenshot. The site stated it was “using what you shared to prepare a personalized message” to Attorney General Bonta.

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