Please, Stop with the AI Generated Images

Also the energy argument - if you are truly sincere about it, then you would argue people should not use AI for 99% of the trivial queries we ask it.

Even if this is true (it's not, corporate style has much less soul because it has to comply with the clean corporate image), so what? Who cares that it's soulless? Corporate image is used all the time, why can't AI be too?

> You want a drawing of something? Learn how to draw. Sure, it will consume some time, money, and goodwill, but I promise you, it will be a billion times more valuable than something fabricated.

I don't really think you understand: a) how lazy people are b) how worthless the time to do a task is if there is a machine that can do good-enough work for a fraction of the time and cost

> Don’t get me started on searching for an image of something via a search engine. It’s filled to the brim with AI images if you don’t turn the filter on, and even if you do, it’s imperfect and still shows some.

Seems like a different issue?

> GPT-4 consumed tens of millions of water.

You're gonna make me explicitly write that water can't be consumed? You should have put this article through chatgippity.

> the amount of water used will soar persistently

You did get one thing right here, the water is used, not consumed...

> In the fourth generation, to generate a 100-word email, it consumed about 500ml of water (17 oz). So writing a 400-word email or re-doing a 100-word one will consume as much water as an average human needs per day ≈ 2000ml (½ gallon)

Even if this is true, the common link is that both "usages" of water will eventually be returned. There is no permanent consumption here of water.

> Even if there was some crazy optimisation reducing the use down to 50% it’s still approximated to be 300 people's daily water amount needed for some dumb AI video.

One man's trash is another man's treasure.

This article is very much man yelling at clouds. It really is true that even an atheist has a religion, and this person's religion seems to be a hatred against AI. Which is fine, but recognize that you don't have any actual reasons, what you have is just an unhappiness with the general climate of the world.