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In a post-scarcity solarpunk future, I could imagine some reasonable uses, but that’s not the world we’re living in yet.


AI art has already poisoned the creative environment. I commissioned an artist for my latest solarpunk novel, and they used AI without telling me. I had to scrap that illustration. Then the next person I tried to hire claimed they could do the work without AI but in fact they could not.

All that is to say, fuck generative AI and fuck capitalism!

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Umm what?

When I run a checkpoint at home, how do you think the creator of checkpoint is profiting or gaining any power/wealth?

This stuff is ridiculously easily self hosted and run independently of any company.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

It might be "ridiculously easy" but there is a reason why linux adoption is around 3ish%.

Its because it isnt the easiest option.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Can’t really run the models in reasonable amounts of time without a reasonable GPU, there’s still a bit of a cost barrier