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A human drawing a thumbnail in 15 minutes consumes 0.025 kWh. An AI creating an image consumes between 0.06 and 0.3 kWh, so between 3 and 12 times as much. Both have massive supply chains that go into producing and maintaining them.
I don't really have a horse in this race eitherway, but what about finding a person who can draw a decent looking thumbnail in 15 minutes? Probably that's gonna be using various webservices such as fiverr or something along the way?
But the whole idea of comparing them is kinda funny. As if that human would just be turned off and not consuming any energy if they weren't making a thumbnail for your blog. Though maybe they'll make a cup of coffee they wouldn't have otherwise before getting to work. You never know!
Everyone is a NPC, they only activate when you're close to them or when you contact them, otherwise they are in standby mode