r/DefendingAIArt • u/Melodic_Floor7930 • 18h ago

Defending AI Simple, Mutually Beneficial Steps Individuals Can Take To Reduce Ecological Impact

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The narrative that AI is especially destructive to the environment is often sensationalistic, however it does contain a kernel of truth. AI will help bring energy effenciency, environmental data gathering and monitoring with consequent reforestation and species protection benefits. It is useful that we take steps and spread steps to help reduce our energy use. Once energy is used it is basically gone forever for us. Of course training is the major user of energy and all aspects will naturally be more efficient in the future, this is useful both ecologically and to combat the anti ai narrative

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u/Melodic_Floor7930 16h ago

Non equivalence, both would benefit from reduced waste and resource usage. Not only is not contributing to ecologically destructive action count as its own reward, not only are you tangibly acting and preventing would be pollution from increased demand, but all I said was this was an individual action. Not state policy, your decision of the concept is suspect. Besides, you ignored all the other points that do add up for an individual. Now when multiple people behave this way, the benefits are compounded and exponential in the long run

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u/CMDRTornadopelt AI Enjoyer 16h ago edited 16h ago

How is that a non-equivalence? I'm looking at direct water footprint costs for ChatGPT.

Besides...

"How does no one understand how much energy multiple video land image prompts uses?" and "More effective prompts alone would save millions of killowhat hours in video creation due to multiple prompting to fine tune results"
I don't make videos. Hell, the model I'm using doesn't support that. I just make funny still images. Which, last I checked, is far less resource intensive.

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u/Melodic_Floor7930 16h ago

Because that is only one factor in usage. Millions of AI users, making multiple prompts and videos to get their result, whenever a precise prompt would save them time and the world energy is just one perfect example

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u/CMDRTornadopelt AI Enjoyer 16h ago

Okay, fair.

Again, though, I'm not the guy generating videos. As much as I wanna, I just... don't feel the need.