imagine how much great art could have been created if we took a fraction of the money spent on getting computers to make shitty art and gave it to actual artists
Pfft. That's inefficient, Luddite thinking. With LLMs, we get to: 1) Spend shitloads of money, 2) Destroy the planet, AND 3) Get shitty art That's THREE for one, and capitalism has taught me that's ALWAYS a good deal.
And free electricity for everyone
yes, eating would be nice occasionally 😐
Also who thought in the modern world “there aren’t enough things to look at”
Texas is subsidizing 10 billion dollars for new fossil fuel power plants specifically because of AI data centers. Imagine if they just subsidized artists and journalists and other workers instead. What a world that would be :(
it was never about art it has always been about having more of [intangible currency number] than those around you
Artists would certainly use less power and create less greenhouse gases.
It’s so far beyond offensive
It's so fckng weird that tech bros want to automate creative jobs, leaving humans to perform boring repetitive ones.
When computers use a fuckton of water and energy to make a picture of Homer farting a cloud in the shape of a pot leaf.
Alt: A gif of Omni Man telling Invincible "look what what they need to mimic Fraction of our power."