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Like nearly everything else, there's a gray area. We don't need to reject generative AI images outright, although, that's the easiest path for lazy people--to see everything as black or white.
On Christmas, I posted an AI photorealistic image of Bruce Willis and Alan Rickman dressed in pajamas in front of a Christmas tree arguing over a Lego Nakatomi Plaza kit. It's funny, and it doesn't hurt anyone. I think that's an acceptable use of generative AI images.
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There's no gray area about the resource cost and contribution to climate change being driven by gen AI though, youre just trying to justify it.
People forget the left sensationalizes things as much as the right does.
A lot of them show datacenter energy use for AI without comparing them to other other workloads. If you're worried about datacenter energy use, I sure hope you don't download any apps or steam any music/video.
https://andymasley.substack.com/p/individual-ai-use-is-not-bad-for
Interesting how for all the comments about LLMs destroying the climate, nobody bothers responding to the one comment bringing sources and figures to the discussion.