As if beauty pageants with humans weren’t awful enough. Let’s celebrate simulated women with beauty standards too unrealistic for any real women to live up to!
Such a noble use of a small country’s worth of energy. Great job, humanity.
generating ai images uses less energy than gaming.
What are you defending here?
not really defending anything, I just don’t like when people’s hatred for ai blinds them to the facts. this “ai beauty pageant” probably barely used any energy.
Have you got a source for that?
A quick search suggests that generating an image consumes between 0.01 and 0.29 kWhs (quite a range, so let’s hit the middle and use 0.14kWh), while playing Cyberpunk on a PS5 pulls about 200W, so ~0.2kWh per hour.
Seems pretty comparable, assuming you only generate a few images an hour… but if you were generating dozens, it seems like you’d overtake gaming pretty quickly.
Edit: I apologise, I took the Google summary of an article at face value. Clicking through to the linked article here actually says per 1,000 image generations which is far lower. Urgh, though actually the article also says 0.01 to 0.29 kWh. I’m just going to find another article. 🤦 If you did have a source with numbers, I’d still be interested in seeing it!
Great question! I actually don’t really have an official source, it’s from my own experience.
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 would be equivalent to me generating 1440 images on my laptop
“Sources”:
Oh I forgot to add a disclaimer kinda. I use a model based on SD1.5, which is best for generating new images at 768x512 pixels. Upscaling it to 1536x1024 using AI would take about 4 times as long and thus use 4 times as much energy, but you would only upscale an image after having generated many images and getting one you are satisfied with, so I don’t think it makes that big of a difference. Maybe out of 100 pictures I’d upscale one to share it. Though I mostly do AI image generation because I think the technology is really cool. I love toying around with the node system in ComfyUI.
lol beauty pageants aren’t creepy enough so let’s do it with pretend women?
And somehow it’s an “influencer.” Why is anyone being influenced by a fake person?!
Aren’t all influencers fake people?
(I mean they’re people but everything about them is fake)
But at least they exist! This is like taking fashion advice from the tooth fairy.
This is like taking fashion advice from the tooth fairy.
Hey, it was a phase, and we agreed to never speak of that again.
You did look darling in that tutu.
Trekkies.
Comic book fans.
Gamers.
Book worms.
Shall I continue?
As someone who asked the question and is also all of those things, perhaps you can explain how any of them involve a simulated person a computer created using words a computer wrote with humans only being superficially involved.
Being influenced by “Luke Skywalker” is still being influenced by a human writing a script and an actor reading that script. You’re still looking at a real person and hearing words a real person wrote. And I think anyone on that list is aware that they are not being influenced by the character itself because, unlike what Galaxy Quest may have told you, we don’t all think it’s secretly true.
Why is anyone being influenced by a fake person?!
That was your original question, and I answered it.
You added more context and I don’t see how that’s different.
using words a computer wrote with humans only being superficially involved.
Bro, you’re dismissing the tons of people who created the technology lol! The chipmakers, the computer makers, the software makers - all human, so…
But let’s entertain your argument. You’re saying that the artificial entity was created by something not human. Let’s expand my list of examples, then:
- Tarot.
- Astrology.
- Demons.
People are heavily influenced by those too.
And let’s have her follow made up religious rules from another imaginary friend!
What a vapid exercise in marketing
I know these tech bros are just jerking each other off, I don’t need to see their wank material.
And the Mr. AI Pageant? Where ‘tis?
Hypermasculine tech bros would not be interested in such an event.
You are incorrect.
Okay, they wouldn’t admit to being interested in it.
Same nonsense as Miss Universe and others.
Thay are all just as shit, no need to single this one out.
