Reminder if you say shit like this, but aren’t a vegan/vegetarian too, then you don’t actually give a shit about water usage, you’re just jumping on the bandwagon because it’s cool to hate AI.
But why should they actually care about water use, they have to pretend to care about water use! Just let them eat meat!! Who cares if it’s hypocritical, just let them pretend to care!
It’s not comparable at all actually. A single image takes a few seconds to generate. So equivalent to a few seconds of gaming (ofc depends on the ai model and the game you’re comparing)
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.
Of course no one plays for just 4 minutes and no one suggested that. You can generate dozens of images in 4 minutes…which means it’s a much higher use of energy for so little return. We need new solar/wind/nuclear power to power our existing infrastructure…not create a new energy suck that cannot be satiated…for almost no return(talking slop generation)
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.
I don’t see gaming needing to fuck hundreds of cities as it gobbles up more compute with data centers and suckung up any new renewable energy for shit slop. Anything gaming is guilty of, Slop is more guilty by orders of magnitude.
Is it funny?
Depends.
Not if generating it used the water of a years use of a small country
Reminder if you say shit like this, but aren’t a vegan/vegetarian too, then you don’t actually give a shit about water usage, you’re just jumping on the bandwagon because it’s cool to hate AI.
But why should they actually care about water use, they have to pretend to care about water use! Just let them eat meat!! Who cares if it’s hypocritical, just let them pretend to care!
being vegan won’t change how much water is used by agriculture
Yes it would, the meat industry is incredibly water intensive.
Blow me.
What if that particular country just wasn’t very important to anyone?
There’s ample reason to shit on AI, but generating a slop meme like this locally uses less resources than a gaming session.
Also as a side note, this particular image looks like a mix of AI and regular editing.
It’s insaine to think that the amount of water used during a gaming session is comparable to generating a single image. Slop is a scurge on the Earth.
It’s not comparable at all actually. A single image takes a few seconds to generate. So equivalent to a few seconds of gaming (ofc depends on the ai model and the game you’re comparing)
A single slop AI meme take about the same power as gaming on a ps5 for 4 minutes.
Truly disgusting amount of power going into slop.
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.
Of course no one plays for just 4 minutes and no one suggested that. You can generate dozens of images in 4 minutes…which means it’s a much higher use of energy for so little return. We need new solar/wind/nuclear power to power our existing infrastructure…not create a new energy suck that cannot be satiated…for almost no return(talking slop generation)
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.
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.
Truly a disgusting amount of power going into gaming.
(also there are AI image generators that take much less power)
I don’t see gaming needing to fuck hundreds of cities as it gobbles up more compute with data centers and suckung up any new renewable energy for shit slop. Anything gaming is guilty of, Slop is more guilty by orders of magnitude.
That’s mostly LLMs, not image gen
Not what they said, local AI is probably something most people dont have access to.