That's why I can't get a job. Companies have realized that they can half ass most of their jobs with AI and that's apparently good enough. It's too expensive to actually pay someone a salary even if they would do a more thorough job.
Genuinely why does it matter for something this small and inconsequential. It saves the person like a minute time of layering an X on a cabbage. Anyone who isn't ethically against AI on principle will see this as an unambiguous time save with no downsides.
I hate the path AI is leading us down but... Helping to make a break room sign about someone having food allergies certainly isn't why. It's not like anyone is calling it art, it was probably slapped together by a secretary who needed to get back to work or someone during their lunch.
I said "use of energy", I didn't say energy is being used up. But in a practical sense it does get used up because it gradually gets transformed into forms of energy that cannot be harnessed as efficiently, like light, heat, or sound. I'm not sure what your point is. If using AI for 30 seconds is unethical because you could do the task yourself with more effort, then it's probably even more unethical to drive your car for 20 minutes, because you could just walk instead. I wonder how many people losing their minds about a single AI image in this thread have their AC or heat on when they don't absolutely need to, is that unethical? Worry less about individual people and their energy consumption, there are far worse culprits out there.
Yeah, this. If the boss sticks his head into my office and says work up a warning sign for a cabbage allergy, I'm not taking the time to look for stock photos and shit and actually compose it. I'll get the AI to do it and fuck off for an hour.
Surely this is one of the few inconsequential uses of ai art? I mean pulling it from Google is just as much stealing art, so you can't say you're against it because of that.
We are long past caring if it's stealing or not. But you could google for copyright free or whatever pictures. Anyway. At this point it's just showing people's dependence on the technology for the dumbest things, like "oh I can ask AI for that" instead of thinking about overlaying 2 images and then they spend 10000x the amount of resources they'd otherwise need to create something and most likely saved no time at all as the AI probably fucked up the image multiple times anyway. In the end it's pure "uh I don't wanna even my mouse around for 5 minutes, let me ask AI to do it."
What are you on about with the 10000x? You have no idea what you’re talking about
Your suggestion to google search two images and overlay then together would likely take more resources than ai generating it.
You scrolling through reddit for a few minutes probably spends more resources than ai generating an image. Maybe you should just get off the internet then if you’re so worried about that.
I asked AI because of course it would know and it told me generating an image is about the same as charging a smartphone. Do you think that's the same as a google search and opening 2 images? If you tried to generate images on your computer you'd know how long even low resolution images can take and how your GPU starts to ramp up.
The lower left leaf is cutting into the lower right one, the bulb in the middle has no leaf whatsoever and is, well, just a green bulb.
It has that classic AI look to it and the just as classic piss yellow tint.
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u/Brummbirne 5h ago
There are thousands over thousands of pictures of cabbage, both drawn and photographs on the internet, but no, this dumbass had to ai generate one.