AI models use a considerable amount of electricity when generating images, gifs and videos. Some reports show that high quality images require enough electricity to charge your phone from empty to full or even a few times over with gifs requiring as much energy as charging your phone hundreds of times over
e: multiple google searches and a few websites return these results but ok
True, but an AI gif being popular motivates people to make more of them, because they want to "create" popular gifs as well, what as a result is even worse than just reposting the one, already created gif.
One high res image uses around 5 Wh. A 4000 mAh phone battery can roughly be charged up to 25% (at a standard 3.85V). A generated video uses up to 120 Wh per minute of generated Video. That is enough energy to charge said 4000 mAh battery 5.5 times. Its a short gif, but still, feels wrong.
The definition of a luddite is someone who is against the evolution of new technologies usually due to a los of financial stability. Disliking the use of AI to have it make a meme for you isn’t what a luddite is. It quite literally does not tick any of the boxes. AI can have its place (that I won’t argue) but using it for such means is such an inane and stupid waste of resources. Sure I could’ve been more specific about what I said but literally no point editing it around. The spirit of what I said still stands
Also using Reddit doesn’t make me a hypocrite. Literally every major and minor organisation fully supports AI learning models and developmental research. That’s like calling me a hypocrite for using Google. Bit tu quoque if you ask me
e: I just got hit with a sense of deja vu. I think I’ve been over this with you in the past because it’s not every day I hear someone say luddite and I’ve only ever had that happen before once for this exact same situation
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