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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 65 points 1 month ago (4 children)

"I'm going to paint a shitty picture" ....... while using enough electricity to power a small town for two months

[–] NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's the training process. After that you can just run it with a single GPU, in a few seconds.

[–] anyhow2503@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes, thankfully the reasonable tech companies offering these services have decided to stop the training process after it was done once. The insane increase in energy consumption and hardware manufacturing for datacenter components and accelerators is purely coincidental and has nothing to do with demand for gimmicky generative AI services. Let's also conveniently ignore the increasing inference cost of more complex models, while we're at it.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I wonder how many artists they could just pay for what they spend on all that...

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Their goal isn't to replace a few staff members, it's to replace all of them, everywhere, across the globe. So they consider it a worthwhile investment. As to what we'll do when 5 people are in control of, manufacturer, and create literally everything?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Surprised to hear that my graphics card consumes enough electricity to power a small town for two months in the second it takes for it to generate an image. I'm getting incredibly good electricity rates if so.

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh? The LLM you're running locally just appeared out of nowhere?

[–] Amir@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 weeks ago

Paintings are not created by LLMs

[–] SolacefromSilence@fedia.io 22 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Really though, I just went through a rabbit hole of confirming a single BTC transaction uses more than 700 KWH, that's 3 months electricity to me!

[–] tomcatt360@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I feel like most of the articles saying this are confusing the mining power usage (a constant load) with the transaction power usage. (Essentially nothing) Each transaction fee does incentivise more mining, but it's not a flat power cost per transaction.

[–] SolacefromSilence@fedia.io 2 points 4 weeks ago

If the constant load shouldn't count against the transaction, how should it be tallied?

https://www.statista.com/statistics/881541/bitcoin-energy-consumption-transaction-comparison-visa/

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

If it's essentially nothing, then why does it take so long to complete?

[–] Free_Opinions@feddit.uk 5 points 1 month ago

A single BTC transaction uses 700kWh of electricity? I'd like to see those documents too now because that doesn't sound right at all.

[–] Maalus@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Gotta love it when people spread misinformation as confidently as you do.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I wouldn't count things I read in an online forum called 'comic strips' as a source of information or disinformation

[–] Free_Opinions@feddit.uk 5 points 1 month ago

Misinformation and disinformation are not synonymous.

[–] SoJB@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Gotta love it when people call bullshit on objective reality as confidently as you do.

The absolute irony.

[–] Maalus@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Okay, show me where my 400W gpu generating an image in 5 seconds uses up the electricity of an entire town for two months.

AI uses 5x the electricity of a google search. It is just used a metric shitton. You don't hear about people boycotting search engines though.

[–] droporain@lemmynsfw.com 0 points 1 month ago

The paintings are shitty, they have no soul. But go on goon away buddy you deserve those ai nudes.