At one point I told myself I could never completely write off a whole artistic movement as shit, but I feel very comfortable doing so with anything produced with generative AI. Besides the queasy, shiny, fake airbrush aesthetic, it's terrible for the environment with the obscene amount of resources required to power and cool the servers.
At one point I told myself I could never completely write off a whole artistic movement as shit, but I feel very comfortable doing so with anything produced with generative AI. Besides the queasy, shiny, fake airbrush aesthetic, it's terrible for the environment with the obscene amount of resources required to power and cool the servers.
Any child's drawing of a stick figure is inherently more interesting and has more artistic integrity than any of the garbage Ted embedded in this post.
This is an important point you raise, Nick: "Besides the queasy, shiny, fake airbrush aesthetic, it's terrible for the environment with the obscene amount of resources required to power and cool the servers." Obscene is a good word for this kind of waste.
AI consumes TONS of energy to function. Between the energy to run the programs and the water used to cool the servers, it has a massive, massive environmental footprint.
A chatGPT query uses 10x the energy of a basic non-AI search.
At one point I told myself I could never completely write off a whole artistic movement as shit, but I feel very comfortable doing so with anything produced with generative AI. Besides the queasy, shiny, fake airbrush aesthetic, it's terrible for the environment with the obscene amount of resources required to power and cool the servers.
Any child's drawing of a stick figure is inherently more interesting and has more artistic integrity than any of the garbage Ted embedded in this post.
This is an important point you raise, Nick: "Besides the queasy, shiny, fake airbrush aesthetic, it's terrible for the environment with the obscene amount of resources required to power and cool the servers." Obscene is a good word for this kind of waste.
Interested in the environmental impact of AI. Can you expound on that?
AI consumes TONS of energy to function. Between the energy to run the programs and the water used to cool the servers, it has a massive, massive environmental footprint.
A chatGPT query uses 10x the energy of a basic non-AI search.
You can read more about it here:
https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/01/16/ai-environment-carbon-footprint/
And here:
https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/ai-has-environmental-problem-heres-what-world-can-do-about
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