yeah that’s fair. what’s really maddening is while I’m sure the vid ai isnt close yet I dont even think the huge data centers even improve that much from what you can already run on a home pc with the open source models for llms or image generation (i.e. something like kobold ai and stable diffusion). like you spend 10,000x more electricity for like a 100x improvement at most (exact numbers not remotely accurate just off the top of my ahead to illustrate my point)
I’d be more welcoming of it as trash for trash’s sake if it didn’t burn additional forests and dry up additional lakes to make the trash.
yeah that’s fair. what’s really maddening is while I’m sure the vid ai isnt close yet I dont even think the huge data centers even improve that much from what you can already run on a home pc with the open source models for llms or image generation (i.e. something like kobold ai and stable diffusion). like you spend 10,000x more electricity for like a 100x improvement at most (exact numbers not remotely accurate just off the top of my ahead to illustrate my point)
The home computer versions of LLMs are fine by me, really.
The massive scale corporate hype-driven data center gold rush is fucked and is already an environmental disaster.
Check out the ai beer commercial somebody made, it is nonsensical enough to be funny.