Yeah, less than a fraction of a percent of these memes are made on home gpus. Most are using publicly available, datacenter based ai prompts.
These datacenters gobble up power and fresh water from people who need it to sustain their existence. This is similar to child labor in that it is exploiting a vulnerable populations resources for a profit.
So okay, instead of doing it at home at 80% something efficiency, I then do it on specifically designed data-center that uses even less power to achieve my task. Why is this worse?
It’s a hypothetical joke. It is axiomatic that it is funny, that’s established in the premise… there is no ‘why’.
If someone wants to try to argue that objectively funny joke isn’t funny because of the reader’s anxiety that they may accidentality be laughing at something made by AI then they’re welcome to try.
Keep in mind that the meme isn’t ‘It IS AI so it isnt’ funny’ the meme is ‘It is funny but I can’t laugh because AI exists’.
If the meme is funny, does it matter?
That shadow is unrealistic and the back of the feline is clearly sloping towards what the AI thought was a 5th leg.
Merry has no concept of space, this was a self portrait.
My apologies. I should have leaned a little harder into the joke that everything is AI suspect now. It’s hard to convey sarcasm over the internet.
Beep boop, I mean “meow”
Keep drawing. That cat is beautiful.
My cat drew it!
You’re beautiful
Yes it does, I want my shitposts to be 100% human made.
But the joke was human made, not the shit
What part of 100% do you not understand?
Somewhere between the 1 and the percent symbol.
Slop isn’t funny, is the thing
It matters as much as how many child workers made our phones, or how many rivers were polluted so we can have cheap plastics.
In theory, yes. In practicality, probably not, unfortunately.
Let’s say I gamed for 6 hours using my GPU at 100%, and then generated some meme using the same GPU for half a minute.
Can you elaborate on how is that comparable to child slavery?
Yeah, less than a fraction of a percent of these memes are made on home gpus. Most are using publicly available, datacenter based ai prompts.
These datacenters gobble up power and fresh water from people who need it to sustain their existence. This is similar to child labor in that it is exploiting a vulnerable populations resources for a profit.
So okay, instead of doing it at home at 80% something efficiency, I then do it on specifically designed data-center that uses even less power to achieve my task. Why is this worse?
We already know the water argument mostly fails.
Yes.
Yes.
It doesn’t to anybody who actually enjoys comedy.
Imagine being so social media brained that you can’t laugh at a meme without purity checking yourself.
No, but don’t get caught saying that on Lemmy.
Are you willing to discuss on the “why” behind it?
It’s a hypothetical joke. It is axiomatic that it is funny, that’s established in the premise… there is no ‘why’.
If someone wants to try to argue that objectively funny joke isn’t funny because of the reader’s anxiety that they may accidentality be laughing at something made by AI then they’re welcome to try.
Keep in mind that the meme isn’t ‘It IS AI so it isnt’ funny’ the meme is ‘It is funny but I can’t laugh because AI exists’.