You’re right, my bad. I should have worded that reply better.

I meant it as a tool to help you code etc it’s useful, especially if you know some coding. It can help you to say finish a game by coding mechanics you don’t quite know how to make work which you can then fix up yourself with the desired parameters etc.

If it helps with finishing your idea of a game (especially if it’s something like the first game you’ve ever made), it’s useful in order to learn some of the workflow involved in making a game.

Reread what I said, calmer this time.

That still doesn’t address that the energy use of AI in your statistics includes all AI rather than just image generation.

If we’re including all AI use cases, we’d have to consider all non-AI use cases on the other end too, not just gaming, such as anime production, 3D rendering, etc that also using graphic card cycles.

And still ignoring the very first question.

So, try again.

But we’re not comparing the global energy use of LLMs, diffusion engines, other specialized AI (like protein foldings) etc to ONLY the American gaming market.

The conversation was specifically about image generative AI. You can stop moving the goalposts and building a strawman now, and while at it answer the first question too.

•Ok, I know the researching ability of people has decreased greatly over the years, but using “knowyourmeme” as a source? Really?

• You can now run optimized open source diffusion models on an iPhone, and it’s been possible for years. I use that as an example because yes, there’s models that can easily run on an Nvidia 1060 these days. Those models are more than enough to handle incremental changes to an image in-game

• Already has for awhile as demonstrated by it being able to run on an iPhone, but yes, it’s probably the best way to get an uncanny valley effect in certain paintings in a horror game, as the alternatives would be:

• spending many hours manually making hundreds of incremental changes to all the paintings yourself (and the will be a limit to how much they warp, and this assumes you have even better art skills)
• hiring someone to do what I just mentioned (assumes you have a decent amount of money) and is still limited of course.

• I’ll call an open source model exploitation the day someone can accurately generate an exact work it was trained on not within 1, but at least within 10 generations. I have looked into this myself, unlike seemingly most people on the internet. Last I checked, the closest was a 90 something % similarity image after using an algorithm that modified the prompt over time after thousands of generations. I can find this research paper myself if you want, but there may be newer research out there.

And if you train an open source model yourself so it can generate content specifically on work you’ve created? Or are you against certain Linux devices too?

Have you ever looked at the file size of something like Stable Diffusion?

Considering the data it’s trained on, do you think it’s;

A) 3 Petabytes B) 500 Terabytes C) 900 Gigabytes D) 100 Gigabytes

Second, what’s the electrical cost of generating a single image using Flux vs 3 minutes of Balder’s Gate, or similar on max settings?

Surely you must have some idea on these numbers and aren’t just parroting things you don’t understand.

The rules to remember when this is happening but before it gets that bad:

1. remember your own advice
2. have you tried turning it off and on again?
3. have you explained the issue to the ducky?
4. have you eaten?

Rule 1 is the hardest tho

Same vibes as “if you learned to draw with an iPad then you didn’t actually learn to draw”.

Or in my case, I’m old enough to remember “computer art isn’t real animation/art” and also the criticism assist Photoshop.

And there’s plenty of people who criticized Andy Warhol too before then.

Go back in history and you can read about criticisms of using typewriters over hand writing as well.

“AI” is just very advanced procedural generation. There’s been games that used image diffusion in the past too, just in a far smaller and limited scale (such as a single creature, like the pokemon with the spinning eyes

What if they use it as part of the art tho?

Like a horror game that uses an AI to just slightly tweak an image of the paintings in a haunted building continuously everytime you look past them to look just 1% creepier?

Or agave syrup apparently

This isn’t unsweetened tea either. It’s probably very sweet considering how high in the order agave syrup is

… Are you happy at least?..

Those exist.

There’s even bacteria that can live in stomach acid and cause terrible issues. Like helicopter

Edit: I’m keeping that typo lmao

The thing is, they care about privacy and such, but don’t know about tech really 😅 otherwise I would have gotten the easy route.

I know multiple people like this though.

In your case you should probably give plasma Bigscreen a try depending your hardware.

If you don’t mind a keyboard, I will say Ubuntu ran surprisingly well, but consider a lightweight browser unless you have 8gb + of RAM

Absol? (j)

Well, on a raspberry pi 4 4gb, no. It’s very sluggish.

Maybe on a 5 with 8gb?

The next device I was going to test though is an Odroid C4 (4gb).

I’m currently going to meet with Bliss Rom creators to discuss getting Netflix etc working on Android as well in a sandboxed manner that still gives 1080p (maybe standard Android though with Flauncher instead of Android TV)

It’s tricky to have a privacy friendly device that can also run mainstream, well, streaming clients.

I’m making this to make an easy to use box that works with a plain IR sensor remote for my parents (along with a customized Rustdesk client app in case they need help).

If that’s not a problem though (like you want to use Radarr/Lidarr) then you can just a Lineage OS version of Android TV, although it seems Konstakang’s version has issues with audio over HDMI on Android 12 and above.

Until EU gets Central and South America as strong allies, and probably eventually Japan, this making the much closer rival stronger.

Would be hilarious if it happened.

Eh, I’ve been in your position.

If I still lived there and was still in death trajectory, I’d do it. Not for all the dumdums who should also be doing it (or the idiots who dont deserve it), but to make the world a better place (or at least try) instead of leaving it in the same shit it’s in, including for anyone you love, if there’s any.

I think that, maybe if you were even closer to death (as in actually terminal), you might (because not everyone has the same mindset) see the point, because people who are going to die anyway have something everyone else doesn’t - freedom from consequences. Freedom of choice with societal constraints, because what can any society impose on someone already destined to meet an end soon? They can try, but what is the ultimate deterrent for most humans is non existent for people who are/were in our place.

Sure, you could call it abelist. I call it opportunist. Glass half full kinda thing. Other people, doing what we could do, have the potential to face something much worse than death in a fascist regime. Torture comes to mind.

Someone like me who had kidney failure and did dialysis though? Assuming they want to capture me to torture me, I just gotta take some potassium supplements right after pulling off what I want to and my heart goes weh.

Don’t pat yourself in the back too much either - even if me or you did go through with such an act, we wouldn’t really be a hero or brave or anything either. We’d be just as much of a coward, in a way, as the “abelists”, in that something was only done once we basically had little to lose. If deciding that, it’s only because there’s already an exit anyway.

You can of course just do nothing like everyone else. Or go do more dangerous things like skydiving or giving a monkey a shower and have some fun. Certain death assured expeditiously gives freedom like no other. You have the right to be selfish with that choice just as those more likely to live longer do everyday.

But you still carry hope because you still have a good chance, that’s why it makes you angry. You still have something holding you back. People who still have hope are not the same as the hopeless, nor even the same as people who lost all hope momentarily.

And that is something those in power forget too.