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The air begins to leak out of the overinflated AI bubble (www.latimes.com)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The pictures aren't very good I'll grant you that, but they definitely don't require even one kWh per image, and besides that basically everything made with a computer costs power. We waste power on nonsense just fine without the help of LLMs or diffusion models.