Comment on Not everything needs to be Art

PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  There’s also the fact that it’s an ecological disaster when it comes to both carbon emissions and using up potable water.

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  • cows_are_underrated@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    That’s why, its always good to run them locally(if you use them for fun)

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    • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      That’s almost certainly more wasteful. The machines they run them on are going to be far more efficient.

      Running it locally is better because of all the other data mining that goes along with capitalism

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      • cows_are_underrated@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        But usually you don’t cool your PC with Freshwater. That’s something a lot of datacenters do.

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    • merari42@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      A GPT-4 level language model and current Flux dev can easily run on a standard M3 MacBook Air via ggml.

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• mouserat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  My father in law told me how a guy at work created several pictures with AI for decorating the floor, bragging about saving costs since he didn’t use licensed pictures. But the AI may have used licensed pictures to learn creating those images. Artists lose money due to this being done by companies, which could very well afford paying the artists. I guess a private person creating memes with AI is not threatening anyone to lose their job.

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• CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Is there any free AI for personal use?

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  • cows_are_underrated@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    You can run Stable Diffusion locally on your PC.

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    • CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I don’t know how to set that up, is there a guide?

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      • cows_are_underrated@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        You can try running Automatic 111 Webui(github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui)

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  • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    There is, and that’s typically less bad, but it still has ethical issues with how it was trained.

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  • weker01@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Yes, many. It depends on what you are looking for (image generation, text generation, text to speech, speech to text, etc) and what hardware you have.

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