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[–] handsoffmydata@lemmy.zip 18 points 4 days ago (3 children)

You could’ve made this image using paint in under 5 minutes, did you really need to waste half a liter of water to have AI generate it?

[–] DornerStan@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Training models takes a stupid amount of energy. Using them after the fact uses very little.

I could generate something like this on my phone using any of the dozens of local models.

[–] handsoffmydata@lemmy.zip -5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I could generate something like this on my phone using any of the dozens of local models.

Feel free to share the device type and local AI model capable of producing an image like this. My guess is you won’t though because it’s not possible 😕

[–] DornerStan@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 3 days ago

Try for yourself https://github.com/ShiftHackZ/Stable-Diffusion-Android

But that's (very clearly) beside the point, which is that you can run a variety of models locally on your PC or phone for miniscule energy. Once a model is trained the damage has already been done.

As always, it's the corporations using the resources and doing the damage, so pearl clutching about random individuals is less than useless.

[–] m532@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 3 days ago

Try Z-Image Turbo it's super new and runs on any computer with, like, a cpu and 24 GB ram. It can generate way better images than this too.

[–] m532@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 days ago

AI-generating images takes, like, zero resources. Think about it. My computer uses very little energy. It couldn't even heat my room if I ran it constantly (I accidentally tried by forgetting to turn on the heater). It can create an image in 20 seconds. There is no magic in AI that increases its wattage somehow. Also, I don't know if you noticed yet, but computers don't have a water input plug. Using a dishwasher once uses more electricity than generating thousands of images, and more water than infinite images.

[–] PanArab@lemmy.ml -1 points 4 days ago

OpenAI, and others, lose money on every prompt even with paid subscriptions. The resources will still be wasted by them but to cost them money is priceless.