Lumisal
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- Comment on Blamed for Steam games ban, Mastercard encourages censorship during Riot Games VCT livestreams 16 hours ago:
It’s not EU wide.
- Comment on Mexit, not Brexit, is the new priority for the UK 22 hours ago:
That’s as Mexican as Twinkies are French
- Comment on Hmm 1 day ago:
- Comment on The triumph of AI marks the end of the information age. 1 day ago:
I don’t know about that. Even Grok has accidentally told the truth by accident a couple times despite being turned into mechahitler. That’s probably more times then Fox News has.
And I’ve seen people exposed to Fox News before. I’m pretty sure they’d be less deranged if they got their info from AI. Propaganda is a hell of a drug.
- Comment on Hmm 1 day ago:
Cool, want to compare them to the images of many more babies boiled alive by the bomb? Or of the walking dead?
You can’t argue y’all are the good guys if you stop atrocity with a much larger atrocity, and then hire some of the people who were in charge of different atrocities in Germany.
- Comment on If I wanted to bury a hard drive for archival purposes (e.g. Country becoming Dictatorship), how to keep the contents from being damaged and where is the safest place to bury it? 2 days ago:
It’s 8tb of porn and the government will be banning it, and they’re hoping it’ll pass with time like prohibition did?..
- Comment on Sony says it’s not done making Xperia phones just yet 2 days ago:
Oh right, 20 years ago 👴
- Comment on There's now more people that complain about AI then there is AI content on Lemmy 2 days ago:
A lot of criticism of my points here were valid, and some of my information (especially my math) was wrong, as pointed out by people more knowledgeable than me.
But in this case - not understanding this comment in particular - it’s just you having poor reading comprehension.
There’s valid reasons to be against LLMs especially, but hiding your incompetency behind blaming them isn’t one of them.
- Comment on xkcd #3126: Disclaimer 3 days ago:
None of the other people in the Nordics are surprised that the native speakers can’t tell the difference. We can’t either after all
- Comment on xkcd #3126: Disclaimer 3 days ago:
*in English.
They still suck at many other languages, like Finnish.
- Comment on There's now more people that complain about AI then there is AI content on Lemmy 3 days ago:
Wait, so you’re okay with piracy?
Although, I definitely understand the distinction between piracy for an individual or household vs piracy for profit
- Comment on There's now more people that complain about AI then there is AI content on Lemmy 3 days ago:
I get what you’re saying now.
That said, I still get the analogy by saying a car used 4 gallons per hour - it still indicates how fuel efficient something is. Especially if compared to something else
- Comment on "ok, imagine a gun." 3 days ago:
They’re both staplers - one’s just manual and the other isn’t.
Spray bottles did not exist before guns, no.
- Comment on There's now more people that complain about AI then there is AI content on Lemmy 3 days ago:
I know they had been paying Getty or some stock image company initially for the AI out painting, but I’m not surprised they’re now pulling they shenanigan.
They’re not stealing since it’s part of their terms. But it’s also definitely not ethical. If anything that’s a valuable lesson to read the ToS.
And more the reason to not use Photoshop.
- Comment on "ok, imagine a gun." 4 days ago:
Replacing “gun” with “press” for example.
Alternatively, caulker, stapler, nailer, gluer, tattooer, and finger pointers. Fingers also usually don’t launch projectiles I think. It’s just that gun culture is so embedded in your brain you couldn’t think of an alternative.
Note how these are all construction tools, and construction is also usually worked by men there. Yet more traditionally feminine tools don’t get the “gun” additive; most will say spray bottle for example rather than spray gun, even though it also has a trigger (a literal gun-like one in some cases) and shoots out a projectile.
- Comment on There's now more people that complain about AI then there is AI content on Lemmy 4 days ago:
We were just talking about the energy used to train a model, not the usage itself.
I mentioned in a comment further down that usage would be significantly higher than training, because of the amount it’s done, the hardware used, and the frequency.
- Comment on I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C 4 days ago:
Which one do you use/have?
- Comment on There's now more people that complain about AI then there is AI content on Lemmy 4 days ago:
Yes, 1Gw was a hyperbolic exaggeration.
I looked it up now out of curiosity and it’s estimated training a state of the art LLM (image gen uses significantly less) at trillions of parameters uses about 10-20,000kw, which is 1-2% of 1Gw. So apparently if that model is used by 300 million people (which is less than the population of the USA, and it’d be accurate to say a popular model would have about that much usage if not more), it would actually be about 0.036-0.067w per person, or toasting bread for less than 10 seconds.
So training a model does use a lot of electricity, but considering how much it’s used / how often, using it definitely generates more than training it I’d say.
I was also implying using the model locally on your own hardware rather than a data center. Local uses less energy because the hardware doesn’t use as much power. It’s also much slower, but it’s also not destructive like an AI data center.
And yup, Adobe paid for the training data used. But, you know, Adobe. But ultimately, something large and centralized would be the only way to run the tech if we’re expecting it to be useable as is.
My personal ethics are if it’s used for personal use and not by a corporation, it’s fine and ethical. After all, Linux is based of code very very few people get paid to make, if paid at all. If all those separate people had to start paying for each bit if code, Linux couldn’t exist either. That said, I think compiling it all is it’s own heavy work too. After all, just like the separate code won’t spontaneously become a Linux OS, separate pieces of art/books won’t spontaneously combine to make something new.
I donate and pay when I can, probably more so than most on Lemmy, for music , software, art, etc; even though it’s hard for me to afford to. But if it’s in public, it’s strange to be surprised when someone uses it. After all, there’s no reason to post anything you make online - that’s a choice that was made.
What I do strongly disagree is a corporation (in particular large ones with plenty of money really) doing it for profit. Such as Meta did with pirating books.
- Comment on There's now more people that complain about AI then there is AI content on Lemmy 4 days ago:
If a single model uses 1Gw of energy (it doesn’t) being trained but 300 million people use it, then it used 3.33 watts of energy per person, and that’s assuming if it was only used a single time.
Using a 900w toaster 8 times to toast 2 slices of bread uses a bit more, at 3.6w - 0.45w for 3 minutes of toasting.
So, I’m not sure if that’s true.
Also, you can use a model which didn’t use IP theft, like Mistral, for LLM, or Photoshop for image gen. That is, if you consider the way it trains IP theft. But then, you’d be supporting corporations like Adobe.
- Comment on There's now more people that complain about AI then there is AI content on Lemmy 4 days ago:
I suppose you have a good point, AI is more tech related I suppose than plastics.
And yet, doesn’t that make more the point why more attention should be brought to things like microplastics in toothpastes and chewing gum? Either way, there’s significant overlap between people who dislike AI because of data center pollution and environmentalism
- Comment on There's now more people that complain about AI then there is AI content on Lemmy 4 days ago:
So Deepseek run locally for LLMs or Flux.1 being run locally at 1080 for image gen?
- Comment on There's now more people that complain about AI then there is AI content on Lemmy 4 days ago:
I’m just saying, if half the people who constantly complain about AI didn’t participate in consumerism in general and plastics, it would even make a tiny additional dent to climate change.
The amount of anti-AI on here doesn’t seem proportional to the amount of people being anti-consumer or doing hobbies that use just as much energy or more than generating a few images locally such as playing a game on high settings with a having PC also using a graphics cards, usually for hours.
But also, it’s a bit annoying to see posts hating on AI where no AI is involved - I’m wondering what percentage of Lemmy doesn’t know by now nearly everyone here is against it. It’s like if people here started explaining what Linux is.
- Comment on There's now more people that complain about AI then there is AI content on Lemmy 4 days ago:
I see less about petrochemicals here than AI, and I’d say that’s #1 by a long shot. At least, in terms of climate change. You’d think it’d be much larger.
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- Comment on Grok’s ‘spicy’ video setting instantly made me Taylor Swift nude deepfakes 5 days ago:
Congrats, that’s 1 out of how many people do you know?
- Comment on Imagine if Amazon and all jobs out there were cooperatively owned? 1 week ago:
Yeah, it could end up in the hands of a couple rich again.
But it could also send up like the GameStop situation.
It could also increase demand by wealthy investors to buy they stock which would also raise the price.
Whenever you think the stock market follows logic, just remember how much Tesla is worth despite not selling nearly enough for that valuation.
- Comment on Are you so young that you have never been in a car with one of these? 1 week ago:
If you were fast, there was a neat trick where you could use them as a bottle opener too.
And some actually did just straight up have bottle openers.
Idk about this one, although it does look like it is, but some were removable, so you could clean them and more easily use that nub to open bottles.
- Comment on Imagine if Amazon and all jobs out there were cooperatively owned? 1 week ago:
Around 25% would have to sell over 50% of their stocks for it to maybe start having an effect.
It could also raise the value of the stock to free up so much stock from a single person to many, as selling it would mean stronger belief in the stock going up.
Stock market is part math, part religion really.
- Comment on SEC says it will deregulate cryptocurrencies with 'Project Crypto' 1 week ago:
No, it didn’t
…wikipedia.org/…/Historical_exchange_rates_of_Arg…
You can even see through exchange rates that it’s otherwise been relatively stable too:
- Comment on SEC says it will deregulate cryptocurrencies with 'Project Crypto' 1 week ago:
You mean all crashes then? The 3 that have happened in over ONE HUNDRED YEARS?
You can’t be fucking serious to compare that fluctuation with Bitcoin’s
