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.
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?
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
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.
You left out the part where the user has to generate multiple images because the initial ones are absolute trash.
That implies that following ones… aren’t. 😶
implying they go to that much effort
I think using ai for some stuff isn’t that bad, like explaining complex stuff or as an alternative to a search engine, but if people wanna use it they shouldnt use that ultra power intensive stuff that those ai companies offer, but rather one of those locally hosted models on their own machines.
