Like, most of what AI bad is the cultism and corporate shit. Like literally shaving 2% off costs to drain a town’s water or something, or proselytizing scaling up transformers while ignoring the efficiency/scaling papers that keep coming out (because that would break the Tech Bro grift).
…At the same time, the absolute energy cost is ridiculously overstated compared to, say, global aluminum or steel production.
And then you have the ridiculous politicization. An example I often cite is a TV series that was ‘fan remastered’ and (as one component in a long chain) upscaled with an oldschool GAN that cost peanuts to train. Beloved years ago, but all of a sudden the fandom hates it because it has something to do with ‘AI’.
…At the same, you can’t ignore how irresponsibly its presented, where these companies are making pennies from spam/slop literally destroying everything. It’s quite reasonable to say “The idiots making this put no effort into it” or “I just don’t like it, yuck” when 99.99% of user-visible AI generation is slop/spam.
You’ve got most of it right, the part you didn’t show you picked up on/I didn’t make clear enough is the complaints that AI is taking all the electricity and water away from a town. Who the fuck gave the permission to have a data center be built that would impact the quality of life of the people living in an area? Why wasn’t the zillon dollar corporation responsible for this increase in power and water consumption?
And then because most people are using corporate ai with shitty , generic prompts, there’s never a chance to discuss using it as a technical art form or within it’s accurate placement in art history, which is something that would be intellectually stimulating to discuss.
Not sure I understand you but I think I get it?
Like, most of what AI bad is the cultism and corporate shit. Like literally shaving 2% off costs to drain a town’s water or something, or proselytizing scaling up transformers while ignoring the efficiency/scaling papers that keep coming out (because that would break the Tech Bro grift).
…At the same time, the absolute energy cost is ridiculously overstated compared to, say, global aluminum or steel production.
And then you have the ridiculous politicization. An example I often cite is a TV series that was ‘fan remastered’ and (as one component in a long chain) upscaled with an oldschool GAN that cost peanuts to train. Beloved years ago, but all of a sudden the fandom hates it because it has something to do with ‘AI’.
…At the same, you can’t ignore how irresponsibly its presented, where these companies are making pennies from spam/slop literally destroying everything. It’s quite reasonable to say “The idiots making this put no effort into it” or “I just don’t like it, yuck” when 99.99% of user-visible AI generation is slop/spam.
You’ve got most of it right, the part you didn’t show you picked up on/I didn’t make clear enough is the complaints that AI is taking all the electricity and water away from a town. Who the fuck gave the permission to have a data center be built that would impact the quality of life of the people living in an area? Why wasn’t the zillon dollar corporation responsible for this increase in power and water consumption?
And then because most people are using corporate ai with shitty , generic prompts, there’s never a chance to discuss using it as a technical art form or within it’s accurate placement in art history, which is something that would be intellectually stimulating to discuss.