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Alien planet, can't breathe? Let's get the short shorts and skirt out.

Why the grow lights and tent? Does it accelerate growth?

Alright, that one is on me half-assing my reading. I'm with you on effectiveness.

I'm with you on more ethical solutions being available, but efficient? In turns of total energy usage required to go from (often unethically acquired) training data to a manifestation of a prompt as an image, maybe.

But regarding the effort and efficiency when purely generating an image? I think not.

There is a person on Lemmy running GenAI models locally (on their own machines) using solar power, and honestly, that's totally fine by me. I'm also fine with a DM generating some art for their next hombrew game they run with a couple of friends.

Acquisition of training data and the environmental impact of data centers (not only for AI usage) are still problems to be solved, though.

Not sort of, depending on the drug, full on.

Once you have figured it out, it's actually a nice workflow. Don't get me wrong, when I'm not publishing a paper, I quickly forget all commands, my whole setup etc. and start from scratch, cursing a lot and retracing my steps in the history, basically re-learning the framework. I'd still never move away from ggplot2.

You really have a hand for posting stuff that I'd like to add to my reading list. Already wanted to comment the last time, but never get around to. Thanks, all stuff I would have never looked at on my own - I appreciate it.

I was about to post this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfcjOPRCw6o

I love that the player sits inside the structure.

Are you driving? Did you ever have the impulse to just jerk your steering wheel and crash into that tree rapidly approaching at 120mph?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrusive_thought

The comic plays off of that.

They would still have to go to the club though, and generate the interest / intent by themselves.

I think the service provided should be more like a PA: they call you Friday at 5pm, ask what you're doing, suggest a couple of activities, and once there, actually make an effort to introduce you to people, suggest common activities, take care of the first hour of awkward conversation so people can get to know each other etc.

$5 says this already exists in Japan.

The reason given is that it might interfere with the "security features". Honestly, if you use a matte, high quality lamination pouch, it will most likely work just fine and you won't ever have issues.

Ah, the image. Yes, I agree - I also noticed AI generated images being used in his videos.