Do you like ai data centers and the havoc and destruction they are doing to the world?

Probably not ,right ?

We have to Be mindful that using AI generated images is a small part (but a part) of how data centers are using up resources and expanding.

It’s true that mass surveillance is the big guzzler. But even personal use of AI generators is the bad option.

I too used image generation for political messages. Art is power. And you can easily make statements with generated images . I made an exception for political art because I thought that was different. The intent was different than blatant theft of other artist’s work, like a lot of other AI slop is. So it wasn’t as bad right ?

But then I became more aware of the situation we are in.

More aware of the scourge of AI data centers. And what impacts they are having.

And it’s just not worth it to make these images.

Data theft is only part of the problem. Continuing to use and promote AI media is encouraging dead-internet and normalizing something that we all need to reject.

As a last note. Lemmy users , (not everyone but generally) are anti AI . Very much against AI generated images. So you will never get upvotes even if it’s clever, the message is good, or any other positive quality. It won’t beat out the disdain for AI for most users.