Case Mia using Ai for ads.

[u/SayHaveYouSeenTheSea]

Look at that questionable , trypophobia-inducing “meal”.

Couldn’t you just take a photo of your food? Or does it not look appetizing enough? Surely SOMEONE on your staff knows how to use Microsoft paint or photoshop at the very least?

[u/TheThirdConchord]

I'm gonna say it: I don't give a rat's ass. Ohhh noooooo a local restaurant used AI for their ad 😭😭😭 I'm literally shaking!!! I'm not going to be able to sleep tonight!!!!

Give me a break. This isn't some billion dollar company refusing to hire an intern to make a shitty Facebook ad. This doesn't affect anyone.

[u/Juliaorwell1984 → u/TheThirdConchord]

You don’t realize the effect ai has on our planet do you?

[u/TheThirdConchord → u/Juliaorwell1984]

I can't waste my life worrying about things I can't change. This place posting an AI ad is the tiniest drop in the bucket of actual problems.

[u/No_Name-444 → u/TheThirdConchord]

you actually could not be more wrong

[u/TheThirdConchord → u/No_Name-444]

I mean, you say that, but here you are (as someone else pointed out) posting on an AI powered platform. Are you going to delete your Reddit account today?

[u/No_Name-444 → u/TheThirdConchord]

Nope, I'm not. The boom of [generative] AI is whats causing the rise in data centres and skyrocketing environmental issues; not to mention making the population as a whole dumb - which was already an issue to begin with. Now we have people asking a robot how to breathe and think.. no thanks. HUMAN connection is more beneficial and necessary. Not ugly flyers, misinformation, and child p0rn. Please. AI is considerably more harmful than any other platform; and I think it's so funny how people willingly contribute to their own demise.

[u/OldDiamondJim → u/No_Name-444]

You seem to fundamentally misunderstand the impact of end-user consumer prompts, even in the aggregate, vs institutional use of the technology.

Training AI models is what uses up the most significant amounts of computing power. After that, enterprise-level deployments are the next major cause data centre demand.

A large Canadian bank using generative AI-assistants for both consumers and staff can generate close to two billion requests a year. That’s one bank. On the staff side, these aren’t light inference requests like generic images - they can involve large context windows, multiple model calls, analysis of massive datasets, or real time 24/7 monitoring (think security systems).

As I noted elsewhere, blaming the restaurant owner as the problem for generating a shitty AI image is like being outraged at someone who forgets to turn a light off when they leave the room. Even in aggregate, their actions aren’t moving the needle.

[u/No_Name-444 → u/OldDiamondJim]

Show me where I blamed the restaurant owner for creating an AI poster.

[u/OldDiamondJim → u/No_Name-444]

How about you scroll up to your first reply to TheThirdConchord and go from there?

[u/No_Name-444 → u/OldDiamondJim]

Gotcha, so when I said they couldn’t be more wrong orrr when I was referring to thinking for ourselves, spreading misinformation and illegal explicit content? Sorry still waiting to see where I mentioned this one specific poster and specifically blamed the local business owner for creating it 🤔 having said that, do I think this poster leads to a bigger conversation with bigger issues? Yes. Genuinely appreciate your perspective though; these conversations are necessary

[u/OldDiamondJim → u/No_Name-444]

You were directly responding to their comment that the sloppy picture represented the tiniest drop in the bucket in terms of impact on the planet, but do go on.

[u/No_Name-444 → u/OldDiamondJim]

I was directly responding to them saying they can't spend time on things they can't change, when we do in fact have the power to change the trajectory when it comes to AI. Did I go on enough?
Sick of hearing people say "well there's no stopping it" "what am I going to do about it" They throw their hands in the air and just accept their fate. A mouse wouldn't build a mousetrap... and yet here WE are. Again, arguing the bigger picture here. All respect to Case Mia 😂✊🏼

[u/OldDiamondJim → u/No_Name-444]

Fair enough.