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I just want to point out that the insane "several steel foundries" worth of energy waste are used in training the bots, and individual requests are, by comparison, much cheaper.
Mind you AI "art" is bullshit and AI "artists" are proof that more people need to be shoved into lockers, but we don't need misinformation to hate AI and AI bros. It's plenty hatable with just the truth.
100% this and the narrative that OP is promoting serves to shift the blame onto the consumer, when in fact AI-companies are not profitable and only works because investors and the US government are willing to funnel billions into them.
There’s bots pushing this narrative en masse because the tech billionaires are lobbying for monopolizing control and access of AI. OP is either a bot, or was fooled into buying the propaganda.
I've heard a lot of compute is starting to be shifted to inference nowadays with all these chain-of-thought models
Interestingly enough, you are correct, and I read about it in the same article that is being depicted in this comic. (MIT's paper on the subject.)
https://news.mit.edu/2025/explained-generative-ai-environmental-impact-0117
I'll tell the disabled kids I work with that you think they should be shoved into lockers because they like playing with AI art.
Do you know any disabled kids that use AI because they cant draw?
I know disabled people who have said that they are annoyed that they are being used in pro AI arguments
Yes I volunteer with an after school club once a month to do a comp Sci "class" with disabled kids.
And one in particular who can barely hold a pencil without help and wouldn't even be able to draw a stick figure on his own cried when I set up the new chatgpt model for him.
But don't let that get in the way of the anti-AI circlejerk by all means.
Ok AIbro.
Am I also a traditional (if not a pretty shit) artist too, if that helps you not label me as an "other" because I don't share the same opinion as you?
Assuming you're not lying -- That just makes you the artist equivalent of a scab.
Lmao
Yes, yes, everyone: hate the AI, focus on the AI, think only of the AI... We'll all be put on special trains for meatbag surplus soon enough. Now, back to the AI, citizen. Haaate. Focus. Run on your wheel.