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Not everything needs to be Art (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
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I just want to make funny Pictures.

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[–] 85 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Nearly nobody is arguing against using AI for personal fun.

People are arguing against AI destroying entire career segments without providing benefit to society, especially to those displaced. People are arguing against how it so easily misleads people, especially when used as a learning aid. People are arguing against the enormous resource usage.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    There's also the fact that it's an ecological disaster when it comes to both carbon emissions and using up potable water.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    That's why, its always good to run them locally(if you use them for fun)

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That's almost certainly more wasteful. The machines they run them on are going to be far more efficient.

    Running it locally is better because of all the other data mining that goes along with capitalism

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    But usually you don't cool your PC with Freshwater. That's something a lot of datacenters do.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    That's true.

    But in terms of power/emissions, data centers are far far better. The waste of potable water could be addressed if we make them, but the inefficiency of running locally cannot be.

    I still prefer to run locally anyways, because fuck the kind of people who are trying to sell AI, but it is absolutely more inherently wasteful

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    My father in law told me how a guy at work created several pictures with AI for decorating the floor, bragging about saving costs since he didn't use licensed pictures. But the AI may have used licensed pictures to learn creating those images. Artists lose money due to this being done by companies, which could very well afford paying the artists. I guess a private person creating memes with AI is not threatening anyone to lose their job.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)

    Is there any free AI for personal use?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You can run Stable Diffusion locally on your PC.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    I don't know how to set that up, is there a guide?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    You can try running Automatic 111 Webui(https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui )

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