Who's out here censoring tits? The OP? That's dumb, you can swear on the internet.
Someone else? Maybe go get a fresh screenshot.
I miss the internet where we tricked our friends into looking at a picture of a man's gaping asshole with zero consequences instead of the one where you have to put a little manual strike through "tits" just in case somewhere an algorithm will autoban you for it.
Honestly who keeps doing that crap because things aren't that locked down fuck sake.
Cities asking residents to use less power is largely due to the fact that most cities have no direct policy power to regulate electricity use. Electricity use is primarily the domain of state/provider policy. Cities asking residents to lower power usage is thereby an ask for residents to collectively work to avoid brown/black out situations for the collective good. Messaging like this without a similar ask to the tech/industrial community would still be short sighted at best.
A couple of years back, the official Twitter account of some police force (Maryland?) made a post during a heat wave that was like, "dear criminals: it's hot as balls outside, can we call a truce and postpone crime for a few days so none of us has to be out there in it? Thanks"
Well, the only different is who use AI to generate trash are rich, and who need power is under-privi people.
Not a fan of disinformation so I'll post this here as well:
I run ComfyUI locally on my own Laptop and generating an image takes 4 seconds, during which my 3070 Laptop GPU uses 80 Watts (the maximum amount of power it can use). It also fully uses one of the 16 threads of my i7-11800H (TDP of 45W). Let's overestimate a bit and say it uses 100% of the CPU (even though in reality it's only 6.25%), which adds 45 watts resulting in 125 watts (or 83 watts if you account for the fact that it only uses one thread).
That's 125 watts for 4 seconds for one image, or about 0.139 WH (0.000139KWH). That would be 7200 images per KWH. Playing one hour of Cyberpunk on a PS5 (assuming 200 watts) would be equivalent to me generating 1440 images on my laptop.
"Sources":
https://www.ecoenergygeek.com/ps5-power-consumption/AI isn't yet slurping any significantly obscene amount of power from the grid, although as it gets more ubiquitous that will surely change. The individual data centers are massive things but they are outnumbered by orders of magnitude by all the rest of it
The big villain in senseless datacenter power usage is cryptocurrency
Plus most of the rest of it, of course, acres of racks burning through the world's resources to run the world's ten millionth pink slime news factory or Youtube click fakery cluster, or whatever
But AI isn't yet adding its useless weight to the groaning pile in any significant way
"Nobody asked for?"
Have you met men?
