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Ruining fun on the internet since 2023 (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[–] 7 points 1 month ago (8 children)

It matters as much as how many child workers made our phones, or how many rivers were polluted so we can have cheap plastics.

In theory, yes. In practicality, probably not, unfortunately.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (7 children)

    Let's say I gamed for 6 hours using my GPU at 100%, and then generated some meme using the same GPU for half a minute.

    Can you elaborate on how is that comparable to child slavery?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    Yeah, less than a fraction of a percent of these memes are made on home gpus. Most are using publicly available, datacenter based ai prompts.

    These datacenters gobble up power and fresh water from people who need it to sustain their existence. This is similar to child labor in that it is exploiting a vulnerable populations resources for a profit.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    So okay, instead of doing it at home at 80% something efficiency, I then do it on specifically designed data-center that uses even less power to achieve my task. Why is this worse?

    We already know the water argument mostly fails.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago* (4 children)

    Because now you are counted as a user gives prompt them (companies) more to make new data centers which are a totally disaster for the enviroment, whoever has to live near 'em and whoever was forced to move away from them— oh and they sometimes even ignorethat nearby water sources are used for the city water and pollute it

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    The big spenders and consumers of AI aren't people occasionally generating some meme. It's not even close.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (2 children)

    Then it shouldn't matter that we're telling the occasional memer to not use AI and that a human made meme is better.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    It kind of does. This is a joke community, memes. Lighten up and stop hating joke AI creations, it's essentially toxicism at this point because them spending an hour to create something versus half a minute generating it is a statistical noise in resource consumption. It's a nothing burger, at least the resources are not used to generate child p

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