You could have displayed someone’s already existing art and credited them with a link to their social profile, though.
No, because that's boring and not creative.
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing”
Perfect! No comments.
This is an anarchist server. Direct action are the words.
Then do that instead.
I did? It took me hours to design this automation (not to mention the months developing the AI Horde)
The average image generator burns between 10 and 30 watt-hours per image.
lol. I don't know where you get your numbers buddy, but it takes me a 2-3 seconds per image on my PC. And my PC is already running because I have to answer to ridiculous arguments on lemmy...
Lol, even your own articles dunk on you
Efficient models, like Stable Diffusion Base, consume around 0.01–0.05 kWh per 1,000 image generations. That’s about 0.000014–0.000071 kWh per image.
Sure seems like it is a concern since the energy usage of datacenters is expected to double in the next year and a half.
So? I don't use datacenters.
And if you posted about those here in the piracy sub you’d get the same complaints.
I didn't advertise Stable Diffusion. I posted about a cool new automation I developed. You're really stretching credulity here...
People here who care about art don’t want to see it replaced with generative genericness any more than they want it locked up behind a corporate paywall. Media pirates should be giving artists exposure, distribution, and donations, not reasons to switch careers.
I wouldn't and can't pay artists to make banners for a random community. Ergo I'm not taking anything away. Likewise someone who can't pay for media, is not stealing money from the artists mouths like the corporate mouthpieces you're parroting like a tool would argue.
Exactly, you never intended to commission an artist because you think so-called “AI art” is good enough to replace them.
You gotta be fucking kidding me...I didn't commission an artist for an image per day A) because that would be insane and B) I'm poor and C) Because the point is being creative myself!
Of course not, the marginal cost of duplicating an existing digital work is trivial. The cost of producing work is not, which is why freelance artists work on commission.
I assure you, the cost of reproducing downloading a single mp3 greater than the cost to generate a single image.
If the images are so trivial then why spend so much effort defending them?
The...what? Read again The cost of creating such images is below trivial! Therefore the potential waste of such an action is not a concern.
You clearly care about this, just not enough to pay an artist for custom work or even to copy something an artist already created.
Yes, because read above.
Again, of course not. You’re a person and not a machine designed to replace paid work with a generic plagirism laundromat.
And as a person, my making the automation to generate these images gives me fulfilment like a video game. Are we done here?
So? I also use a PC with components developed by AMD,Nvidia and half a dozen other corporatiosn. I live in a house developed by corporations. I eat food developed by corporations.
And unlike all those, Emad doesn't get a dime from my random banners.
Same fucking energy
Oh totally. The irony is that the previous banner was GenAI as well.
My random banners don't stop anyone from opportunities to practice their art. What kind of drugs are you on? Also, you realize you're in the /c/piracy community, yes? Do you also go and complain about copyright violations?
Electricity spent to provide humans with a comfortable working environment isn’t wasted.
Your comments are anything but "a comfortable working environment".
Anyway, my point is that your comment "waste" is below trivial. Just like my genAI images. My computer is far more wasteful in a single session of video gaming. Or are you railing against those too?
There's nothing corporate about what I do here.
As to why? The because I thought it would be a cool idea to have a new banner every day and because I like randomness, chaos and emergent order. Why do humans change things? Because we can. Because we find the idea cool. Because we like experimenting with creative tools and coming out with never seen before ideas and interactions.
You realize that making my own banner would waste order more electricity, right? The electricity expended to generate one new image is about as much as the amount you wasted writing these comments
Facebook implements things that affect what you get to see and experience (more ads, less people you follow, propaganda etc) for their own profit and empowerements at the cost of the whole society. This just replaces one GenAI image with another for funzies. But sure, if that's the hill you're willing to die on, do what you have to do.
You do realize that what I find creative is not just the final art result?