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Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The light that powers that sign likely uses more power than is going to be saved by people turning their screens off because of it
midtsveen@lemmy.wtf 1 day ago
[deleted]brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 day ago
one viral AI avatar or “Barbie Box” image can consume enough energy to fully charge an electric car several times.
A Model 3 battery is ~200,000 kiloJoules.
Absolute worst case for an image, even taking extreme estimates and amortizing out all the training, is like 20kJ. Maybe 60kJ for a slop video that takes under a minute to render, which is on the order of browsing Lemmy on a laptop for a bit.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I don’t think anybody turns their phones on thinking “I wonder what halfbaked AI generated video i can watch now?”
midtsveen@lemmy.wtf 1 day ago
xD, so true, my mind wandered the wrong way!
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 1 day ago
AI slop is a different topic.
midtsveen@lemmy.wtf 1 day ago
True!
tetris11@feddit.uk 14 hours ago
oh fuck off with that logic, a message needs a platform to be heard. Yelling at the top of your lungs about the axe-murderer isnt going to get you anywhere if you’re in his basement with the bodies. Get on his roof and yell
CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
They could always use a poster…
tetris11@feddit.uk 13 hours ago
“But the trees used to cut that poster and the glue used to put it up, along with the lighting needed to make it visible at a distance would incur unforgiveable costs on this planet…”
It IS a poster with a backlight that was already there.
This isn’t BP throwing out a million dollar PR campaign to improve their image after polluting the ocean, this is a university putting out a PSA to drum interest about sustainable ways of using our digital devices.
They printed a poster and an rented an illuminated poster board that was already there to do so
rbesfe@lemmy.ca 12 hours ago
What exactly is this PSA telling people? The message seems to just be “we’re doing vague sustainability research”.
I think this could have been a spam email and it would have achieved the same outcome
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
This isn’t a worth while message.