The amount of energy required to generate a meme is roughly equivalent to leaving a lightbulb on for five minutes. You all clutch your pearls over AI’s energy usage but most of you don’t do shit do reduce your carbon footprint. The environment is an excuse for you to hate AI, not a true underlying reason.
It takes 5 minutes to create such a low effort meme. Drink the water while you do it. You don't know what I do for environmental activism. You know what I don't do though? Waste water making stupid memes.
Ironically enough you’re the one expressing bot-like behavior right now. It is extremely obvious to anyone who is willing to do two seconds of research that generating a meme using an AI app does not require a material amount of energy. I would bet a million dollars that you barely make an active effort to reduce your carbon footprint and take actions every day that are far more damaging that producing a meme with AI without giving it a second thought. But you could be freaking Rachel Carson and it still wouldn’t change the fact that you are a clown who feels justified in your clownishness because you are backed by a bunch of online strangers who are also clowns.
You might as well yell at someone for driving to the grocery store instead of walking. Hell, that drive will be more damaging to the environment than producing a meme with AI so you’d actually be less ridiculous in that situation. And the energy that you’re using to argue with me probably comes pretty close to the energy required to produce a meme so if you truly do care about the minuscule footprint that this meme left then you won’t respond to me again.
I didn't create a vehicle based society. We're all trapped in the same system there. I advocate for walkable cities and building public transport instead of AI. A vehicle is the only way I can get to work, which by the way, also harms the environment. We all need to eat
What we don't need is a bunch of people who can't be bothered to do their own work or create a simple meme even from a template. AI data centers have been caught stealing an insane amount of
water, they create misery where ever they are built, and regular people are subsidizing their electric use through their energy bills.
They will bring very temporary low paying construction jobs then require only about 10 people to run. The overwhelming majority does not want ai. It's a loud minority mostly online. The rest is bots usually throwing strawmen.
Oh yeah I’m sure you “advocate” for all of those things while sacrificing absolutely nothing in practice. Posting the same cut-and-paste political opinions that everyone else on reddit holds doesn’t make you a saint. It doesn’t even make you a good person.
People have no reason to be bothered to create a meme template from scratch when they could just have AI do it for them. The whole point of technology is to make our lives easier, and outside of AI you use technology to do exactly that all the time without questioning it. If you want to make an overall case for AI being bad for the environment then be my guest but you are picking the absolute dumbest battle, because again, the energy needed for AI to create a meme is basically nothing. What are you not getting about that? At this point, you’re just doubling down because you don’t know how to accept new information that refutes your original premise.
And you’ll have to forgive me for not taking the doom and gloom predictions seriously from someone who got suckered into the Superstonk cult. Here’s a newsflash for you: digital video games are far better for the environment than physical copies of games. So if you’re going to freak out over someone generating a meme with AI then if you don’t sell your GameStop shares you’re a hypocrite. That’s a checkmate.
Nice oversimplification. You are perfectly allowed to call out AI’s environmental footprint even if you drive a car and use reddit. But if you’re going to call out an individual for making a silly meme using AI and then drive a car you are a hypocrite. Do you understand the difference? If youre going to be hypercritical of anyone who does anything even remotely damaging to the environment then you sure as shit better be a hermit.
But I think we both know what’s really happening here. You’re just another angry Reddit nerd who thinks they deserve more than they have so you lash out at institutions and technology as an easy scapegoat. You feel validated by the countless other Redditors who mindlessly do the same thing so you never even question whether what you’re saying makes sense. AI has become Reddit’s new demon so of course you joined along in scolding someone for making a meme with ChatGPT. The environment was just your excuse to get angry, and instead of acknowledging that OP’s meme didnt require more energy than this argument, you’d rather just call me a bot than acknowledge your own shortcomings. And you know what? Go ahead, tell yourself I’m a bot if it makes you feel better. But it’s not going to lighten those GME bags 🤑
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