Omg. The damage has been done? Cows have been killed, because someone used an ai generated texture for mud.
One way of looking at it is serving a vegan a vegan meal, after you slaughtered a cow for the first couple of tries. Some of the damage has already been done. Also, we’ve had several kerfuffles already where GenAI “placeholders” were present in a released game, and caused plenty of outrage. It’s far safer to never have those placeholders to begin with. Just draw up something ugly in Paint, at least it’ll be plenty obvious you need to fix it before launching the game.
PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Overspark@piefed.social 2 days ago
In order to generate that texture, AI bots have already been attacking every website hosting content on the internet for the past year, to the point that they were basically DDoSed and forced to take extreme measures to stay online. Plenty of copyrighted works have been slurped up without consent from their authors, a massive amount of energy has been used to inference the models and even more energy (far more than all cryptocurrencies combined for example) is used generating things from those models. So yes, a lot of damage has already been done. Far more than killing a couple of cows.
PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world 2 days ago
That’s bullshit exaggeration and you know it.
Plus there are legally made models.
Massive energy is used to give you porn, its the way it is. Humanity needs more and more energy all the time. Making that one thing you don’t like the problem is not sensible.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
That’s bullshit exaggeration and you know it.
It is not a bullshit exaggeration.
person420@lemmynsfw.com 1 day ago
I heard an interesting statistic the other day. Golf courses use vastly more water than AI. Upwards of 30x more in some areas.
AI usage only accounts for like 20% of water usage by data centers in general.
voracitude@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Maybe a better analogy would be the Ship of Theseus - how much of an AI-generated picture has to be replaced by human work for it to not be considered slop anymore?
halfdane@piefed.social 2 days ago
Slop of Theseus
Omgpwnies@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Or to stick with the vegan/meat analogy - making the perfect vegan sausage patty by making several meat patties, each one with iteratively less meat until a vegan patty is left, as well as several dead pigs.
Dojan@pawb.social 1 day ago
Homeopathic burgers.