Yes, thankfully the reasonable tech companies offering these services have decided to stop the training process after it was done once. The insane increase in energy consumption and hardware manufacturing for datacenter components and accelerators is purely coincidental and has nothing to do with demand for gimmicky generative AI services. Let’s also conveniently ignore the increasing inference cost of more complex models, while we’re at it.
Surprised to hear that my graphics card consumes enough electricity to power a small town for two months in the second it takes for it to generate an image. I’m getting incredibly good electricity rates if so.
I feel like most of the articles saying this are confusing the mining power usage (a constant load) with the transaction power usage. (Essentially nothing) Each transaction fee does incentivise more mining, but it’s not a flat power cost per transaction.
“I’m going to paint a shitty picture” … while using enough electricity to power a small town for two months
That’s the training process. After that you can just run it with a single GPU, in a few seconds.
Yes, thankfully the reasonable tech companies offering these services have decided to stop the training process after it was done once. The insane increase in energy consumption and hardware manufacturing for datacenter components and accelerators is purely coincidental and has nothing to do with demand for gimmicky generative AI services. Let’s also conveniently ignore the increasing inference cost of more complex models, while we’re at it.
I wonder how many artists they could just pay for what they spend on all that…
Surprised to hear that my graphics card consumes enough electricity to power a small town for two months in the second it takes for it to generate an image. I’m getting incredibly good electricity rates if so.
Oh? The LLM you’re running locally just appeared out of nowhere?
Really though, I just went through a rabbit hole of confirming a single BTC transaction uses more than 700 KWH, that’s 3 months electricity to me!
I feel like most of the articles saying this are confusing the mining power usage (a constant load) with the transaction power usage. (Essentially nothing) Each transaction fee does incentivise more mining, but it’s not a flat power cost per transaction.
Gotta love it when people spread misinformation as confidently as you do.
I wouldn’t count things I read in an online forum called ‘comic strips’ as a source of information or disinformation
The paintings are shitty, they have no soul. But go on goon away buddy you deserve those ai nudes.