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[–] yunxiaoli@sh.itjust.works 32 points 3 months ago (3 children)

From the environmental impact, to the social impact to the personal impact absolutely no part of it is harmless.

[–] Holistic@lemmy.world -4 points 3 months ago

I'm a killer, hes a killer, shes a killer, bitch! We all just walking zombies trying to scratch that itch!

[+] Emerald@lemmy.world -10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

The environmental impact argument doesn't really work anymore now that you can produce AI generated images on a standard gaming PC. Also I'm not sure what you mean by "personal impact". I can understand "social impact" but if the person generated the image themselves, I assume they would enjoy it and not have a negative personal impact from it.

[–] yunxiaoli@sh.itjust.works 18 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The training for the models still requires massive data centers, ai has caused data center power usage to double in the last five years, and wasting power on stealing art is still wasting power even if you reduce it down to just running a local model on your gaming pc, which is a tiny fraction of users.

The personal impact is the artist that does not want their art used this way. In this case the artist has made it incredibly clear that ai is a cancer on society and an affront to human life. I think that would affect a normal person that has any shame or empathy.

[–] Emerald@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

The training for the models still requires massive data centers, ai has caused data center power usage to double in the last five years

That's a good argument for stopping the training of AI models, but the models we have are here to stay.

The personal impact is the artist that does not want their art used this way.

Maybe they shouldn't have publicly released their art to the world if they didn't want people or machines to make things similar to it. Copying is not theft, I think Nina Paley is right about that.

[–] Lumiluz@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 months ago

You can train the models locally now too. Have been able to for awhile actually, don't even need the latest graphics card, a 3090 or older high server GB cards would work.