Workers and Resources posted cringe (CW: Plagiarism machine soup)

based on simply stealing hardworking artists' work

Lol @ the moral panic wording here, the mask is almost off.

Pulling up pictures off the internet to improve output is called learning, which people also do. It's in the name: Machine Learning.

amalgamating it into ugly, soulless imitation

More moral panic wording, appeals to nature, vague anti-materialist spiritual spooks like "soul" and false consciousness and pure opinion.

It makes nice and unique images from the imagination of the user. Most AI art is shit, because 99% of everything is shit.

the view that AI is somehow "democratic"

It puts power to produce media in the hands of the people. And before you go "hurr just grab le pencil amirite reddit", I mean media of some quality, without the precondition of the obvious economic requirements that currently allow the elites to pursue art.

how you justify the fact it's a complete waste of energy in the same vein as Bitcoin.

I'd say you're more of a waste of energy than cryptocurrencies because at least with crypto I can buy drugs online, you are totally useless and no doubt consume a lot of energy (calories).

Allowing people to organise their own economy and trade away from western hegemony and amerikkkan pharma kartels non-competes via the war on drugs and their DEA lapdogs is a good thing.

I wouldn't call DNMs leftist, they're closer to ancapistan, but they're at least effective in nullifying laws in the way that the left just never is, because they fear 1s and 0s.

The issue with crypto is turning it into a speculative asset for a quick profit which spikes demand unreasonably thus making the energy use a significant problem, which combined with the issue of suppression of climate change research in the past and lack of investment into renewables past and present is exacerbating the problem ever further into making the whole thing a net negative, though worth noting Ethereum has already largely solved the energy problem, once again proving that crypto enthusiast programmers are more effective environmentalists than most anprim anti-AI leftists ITT.

What is and isn't a waste of energy is a matter of opinion. I run my server 24/7 as a toybox for tinkering and self-hosting, including of a diffuser. You being upset justifies it alone well enough for me, but I think that's justified otherwise as well

On the other hand I'm not sure the energy used by the gaming industry is okay. Doesn't mean we should go and unplug everyone's PS4 and throw it away.

I don't think it's okay for me or anyone to dictate such specificities in day to day life of others, I'm not a conservative moral busybody, and in my ideal society™️ those who use more should simply pay more (while a baseline is covered for all) or generate their own power (to use or give back), but ofc all commercial or god forbid closed source models hosted in cloud by FAANG etc should be nuked because that's on a much different scale than local models.

Also, peepee poopoo.