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    10 hours ago

    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?

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      2 hours ago

      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.

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        43 minutes ago

        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 😕

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      6 hours 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.