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[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/generative-ai-energy-environmental-cost

Reduce, reuse, recycle applies to digital content as well. When you can, just use a meme template.

Meme responsibly.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

I'm on the fence about this too. If Ai images have been good for anything it's amusing 30-second shitposting and not actual artwork. Although I think vintage hand-made memes have more cultural value overall.

That being said, if you're gonna image-gen, I think it should be done on local hardware rather than spamming downtown-sized super-mega-data-centers using up an entire county's water supply to cool servers generating surreal Spongebob horror.

My 2¢ anyway.