▲ 463 ▼ Google Earth's new AI image generation function didn't survive a day after users deepfaked disasters (www.businessinsider.com) submitted 3 months ago by Some_Emo_Chick@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world 57 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 12 points 3 months ago (2 children) And we're destroying the environment for it permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] otp@sh.itjust.works 1 point 3 months ago (1 child) I wonder how it compares to meat consumption, personal vehicles, air conditioning, cheap manufacturing in poorer countries, fast fashion, the internet and its infrastructure... I'm glad to see people talking about the environment, but I have no idea how AI usage compares to other things that are destroying the environment. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] phanto@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago In my case, I use a locally hosted stable diffusion setup, so it's not even running 99.9% of the time. Turn it on, ask for the thing, turn it off again. Fans are spinning for a minute. A single session of any AAA game is worse. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 1 point 3 months ago (1 child) I wonder how it compares to meat consumption, personal vehicles, air conditioning, cheap manufacturing in poorer countries, fast fashion, the internet and its infrastructure... I'm glad to see people talking about the environment, but I have no idea how AI usage compares to other things that are destroying the environment. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] phanto@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago In my case, I use a locally hosted stable diffusion setup, so it's not even running 99.9% of the time. Turn it on, ask for the thing, turn it off again. Fans are spinning for a minute. A single session of any AAA game is worse. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] phanto@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago In my case, I use a locally hosted stable diffusion setup, so it's not even running 99.9% of the time. Turn it on, ask for the thing, turn it off again. Fans are spinning for a minute. A single session of any AAA game is worse. permalink fedilink source parent