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[–] UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 13 points 9 hours ago

Funny comic.

On a serious note though - AI is advanced means of production. All of it might not be 100% production ready today, but it's getting there soon. Our goal must be to seize this means of production (make AI companies publicly owned with a consumer cooperative operational model). Denying its existence only serves the interests of the bourgeoisie, as it makes us unprepared when it actually starts replacing jobs en masse.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 55 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

"I'm going to paint a shitty picture" ....... while using enough electricity to power a small town for two months

[–] NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 26 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

That's the training process. After that you can just run it with a single GPU, in a few seconds.

[–] anyhow2503@lemmy.world 7 points 10 hours ago

Yes, thankfully the reasonable tech companies offering these services have decided to stop the training process after it was done once. The insane increase in energy consumption and hardware manufacturing for datacenter components and accelerators is purely coincidental and has nothing to do with demand for gimmicky generative AI services. Let's also conveniently ignore the increasing inference cost of more complex models, while we're at it.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 25 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Surprised to hear that my graphics card consumes enough electricity to power a small town for two months in the second it takes for it to generate an image. I'm getting incredibly good electricity rates if so.

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 3 points 6 hours ago

Oh? The LLM you're running locally just appeared out of nowhere?

[–] SolacefromSilence@fedia.io 17 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Really though, I just went through a rabbit hole of confirming a single BTC transaction uses more than 700 KWH, that's 3 months electricity to me!

[–] Free_Opinions 5 points 12 hours ago

A single BTC transaction uses 700kWh of electricity? I'd like to see those documents too now because that doesn't sound right at all.

[–] tomcatt360@lemmy.zip 10 points 16 hours ago

I feel like most of the articles saying this are confusing the mining power usage (a constant load) with the transaction power usage. (Essentially nothing) Each transaction fee does incentivise more mining, but it's not a flat power cost per transaction.

[–] Maalus@lemmy.world 12 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Gotta love it when people spread misinformation as confidently as you do.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 10 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

I wouldn't count things I read in an online forum called 'comic strips' as a source of information or disinformation

[–] Free_Opinions 4 points 12 hours ago

Misinformation and disinformation are not synonymous.

[–] droporain@lemmynsfw.com -1 points 19 hours ago

The paintings are shitty, they have no soul. But go on goon away buddy you deserve those ai nudes.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 5 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

The robot isn't preventing anyone from also painting a picture.

[–] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago