• Korhaka@sopuli.xyz
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    3 days ago

    Even with the training costs, it is very little water compared to mass scale agriculture.

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      3 days ago

      Except agriculture puts food on the table, and ai data centers just spits out soulless art and tells people to kill themselves. I would not consider them to be comparable.

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        3 days ago

        We produce food in such a vast excess compared to what we need that we feed most of it to animals so we can have beef instead despite being vastly less efficient.

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          3 days ago

          And I support degrowth. I do not see how this helps you. I never said we don’t have an excess, I just said we need agriculture and we dont need ai data centers.

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      3 days ago

      Yeah, a process required to make food and a process to make an image that could have easily been done by an artist or simply pulled from one of the countless sites full of existing free images, are totally comparable.

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        3 days ago

        How much energy would have been taken in the time it takes you to draw a poster on a computer?

        I would actually be interested in the comparison, how long is a typical model trained for and how much is it used. The actual generation usage is typically a few seconds of a normal gaming PC. Training is more, but its then used by many.