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DO IT

Do I get to choose the city?

Training the models is very resource intensive, but after that it's basically fine. I can run Midjourney image generation on my modest gaming laptop. Takes maybe 30 seconds for a high-resolution image at a laptop's "gaming mode" power consumption.

AI image generation is comparable in electric use to e.g. playing Valheim or Elden Ring.

It's when it's scaled up industrially that it becomes a huge waste of electricity. Me playing Valhelm for 5 minutes is nothing. My startup creating 20000 bots playing Valheim 24/7 is a problem for society.

I swear 50% of Mastodon's feed is just people having mass hysteria about AI and not understanding how any of it works

Also constantly getting baited about how AI is definitely the reason global warming is happening despite, you know, waves to virtually everything running on fossil fuels

<homer>Alright, but it better be good!</homer>

Don't worry, we're not there yet. It can't even decently generate its own dialog box.

Edit: second version gave me a brain hemmorhage

Yes ...... power suddenly goes off in their house

This is such a stupid take, the author is either a lemming or doesn't understand how resources and commodities work

Do some people just scroll mastodon till they find a meme to crosspost here? Surly federation has a cleaner way to do this?

are there any studies or data on the actual consumption of electricity that AI uses? I know that training consumes a lot, but if the usage of it doesn't consume much, it doesn't really matter since it's a one time cost.

Training takes more resources.

Querying takes less resources.

Technically possible to do since you have diminishing returns on accuracy by scaling the operation up.

You could use that much power to generate a 200x200 avatar, if a person had that much authority and actually wanted to.

It’s ten minutes. They’ll survive.

My AI can do more pixels than your AI.

It's funny, sad, and kind of true, but to be fair you can create some pretty cool images with AI (think stable-diffusion) even with just mid to high-end consumer hardware.

The market only cares if the oligarch I am trading with and me are happy with the transaction. Commons is a tragedy for enjoying the lamentations and tears of the commies.

we will push. we will push the button. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoRyrCjOkdI

Well "small city" means a decent chance it's some rural town that voted for Drump sooo they get what they voted for ig ¯⁠\_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

Lets do it. Full speed ahead.

This is utter fucking bollocks. Fuck all the way off