• OBJECTION!@lemmy.mlEnglish
        66·
        7 months ago

        the last time you watched youtube or streamed anything it consumed far more system resources and it produced far more pollution than the vast majority of machine learning is even remotely capable of. why pick on the data centers used for AI when they’re handily outnumbered by infrastructure for other equally, if not more vain corpo products?

        I’d like to see a source on that, first of all. Second, “banning video content” isn’t really a viable or realistic option, and would also put a lot of people out of work, and the existence of video content provides value in education, artistic expression, and entertainment. AI slop does not, it’s wholly unnecessary, ugly, limits expression, puts artists out of work, etc.

        • A Wild Mimic appears!@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          72·
          7 months ago

          Sorry to cut in, but I have to hard disagree here.

          The post in question has given someone the possibility of creating an image on par quality of any other *ball meme and saved about 20-30 minutes of work. It is an artistic expression, isn’t more or less ugly than other *ball memes of similar type, enhanced the expression of OP (who would had worse results for more work), and no artist can subsist on the creation of memes.

          Also, it is very possible to create stuff like this on consumer grade hardware, taking not much more power than running a video game.

          I agree that AI CAN be used to create piss-poor excuses for art or to push artists out of their work, but it’s the corpo’s doing that, not the technology. I also groan everytime AI gets shoehorned into another thing where it simply does not offer anything useful, but it surely makes a difference if a corp uses AI as cost-cutting measure, or a private person uses it to enrich their life, which - we shouldn’t forget that - the technology should be there for.

          • Mystic Mushroom [Ze/Zir]@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            51·
            7 months ago

            Also, it is very possible to create stuff like this on consumer grade hardware, taking not much more power than running a video game.

            This is the one thing the Anti-AI trolls can’t wrap their heads around or if they can they refuse to and instead try to strawman their previous point, because without that part their argument is purely copyright apologia.