This seems like a waste of time to me when you could instead focus on Coal or things that matter

What's your thoughts on this?
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    one viral AI avatar or “Barbie Box” image can consume enough energy to fully charge an electric car several times.

    A Model 3 battery is 200,000-300,000 kiloJoules.

    Absolute worst case for an image, even taking very extreme estimates and amortizing out all the training, is like 30 kJ. Maybe 70 kJ for a slop video that takes under a minute to render, which is on the order of browsing Lemmy on a laptop for a bit. For reference, a local generation with FLUX dev on my 3090 is 2 kJ per image, and that's relatively inefficient.

    I'm just saying, that is a bad comparison, as EVs take an absolute truckload of electricity to run.

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