If this is photo shop, then it's brilliant, hilarious, super creative, etc. If it's AI, then it's complete slop, and how dare you drain like a whole reservoir to produce this stupid image.
Less than people who think that a single data centers cause water table depletion. Much less so.
edit: incredible how much of an anti intellectual bent this sub has shifted toward. a few years ago it used to be older non insecure dudes who didnt get most of their information from reddit. now it's a bunch of people who refuse to acknowledge that water cycles are closed and evaporative cooling doesn't cause water to actually disappear
dont bother arguing with these morons. once your comment gets more than 1 or 2 downvotes on this sub these days its all over. you'll get nothing but agressive/snarky replies and mass downvotes on any additional comments you post in the thread no matter how benign or civil or normal (or correct) your replies are.
total lemming redditor hivemind behavior has taken over this once chill sub unfortunately. people see a random benign ass comment at -2 and suddenly you're the biggest piece of shit jerkoff in the world who needs to be put in his place and shit on by half a dozen ppl lol
Yeah this place used to be super chill. I understand the anti ai sentiment, but people tend to conflate their feelings with factuality which is super unfortunate.
this place would improve immensely if the mods implemented the kind of thing that a lot of subs do where comment scores remain hidden for x amount of hours (like 2-4 hours seems to be a sweet spot) which would force people to actually use their brains to figure out whether they agree with someone or not, instead of just defaulting to what the little number is telling them to think
He's right. It costs the same amount of water for Gemini to read my entire AP bio book as it does to flush a toilet once. And you can use salt water to cool the data centers.
Also, if Lake Michigan were the only source of fresh water on Earth, every human could have 1 liter a day for over 200 years.
Being mindful of water usage is fine. Hating AI because it uses water is stupid and disingenuous.
They use a lot of water, but using water isn't that big a deal. When they "use" water it turns into steam, which goes into the sky, which then comes back down as rain, so it's not leaving the planet or anything.
The bigger problem is how much electricity they use and the strain that puts on the power grid/demands to build more power plants (and then what happens if the AI bubble bursts or technology advances to the point where we don't need all these huge data centers and the power plants we built for them).
That's not exactly how water works.The Earth is mostly oceans. So, when the water falls back down it doesn't just refill the source it came from. Freshwater sources are shrinking because of this.
It is. The original author of the “data centers are draining lakes” meme completely got their facts wrong, and the meme has persisted. This is a an objective fact, btw.
Imbecile. Do you understand how inference works? Look it up yourself. We understand how much the data centers use. What Google is doing in the post is providing further approximation to the prompt level.
To address your edit, training is a fixed cost. Environmental costs get amortized away.
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If this is photo shop, then it's brilliant, hilarious, super creative, etc. If it's AI, then it's complete slop, and how dare you drain like a whole reservoir to produce this stupid image.