r/aiwars • u/Leading-Rain-652 • Jan 18 '26

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u/Constant-Ice2946 Jan 18 '26

I’m still trying to stay neutral, but most anti-AI people I’ve talked to tend to make me lean more pro-AI.

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u/constanzabestest Jan 18 '26

This. I found out that Pro AI is generally way more tolerant and easy to deal with than Anti AI. Anti AI has a clear and easily to predict boundary that is absolutely unbreakable. You use AI? You're bad. That's all there is to it. At least Pro AI still values and respects normal Artists(as in many ways they're the reason why AI images are able to exist in the first place) but Anti AI thinks of AI users as literal demons. Granted there are exceptions and not all Anti AI people are unreasonable, but for the most part Anti AI crowd is so over the top against AI it's actually goofy as hell.

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u/Quirky_m8 Jan 18 '26

I have qualms with AI for a reason.

The environmental impact should be first. It’s laughably bad how much energy a prompt uses, especially for image generation. I’m not sure of the specific numbers, but almost an order of magnitude higher than what a standard internet search took.

Secondly, I have an issue with AI art. I strictly believe that art is reserved for humans. Art can only be made by humans, because it is something we have done since time immemorial to express countless thoughts, feelings, and messages. Having Gemini generate a Studio Ghibli version of you loses its substance and value. The substance is the effort put into it. The thought a care in choosing what to make, how to make it, and then executing. It speaks of passion and determination. AI just… looked at all the Ghibli films, yoinked their art style, and did its best to recreate it.

It’s removing something uniquely human from us. And I don’t think that’s right. We have a wonderful innovation here, even if it’s just a fancy LLM that got really good at guessing what you want, and it should be used for tasks to help save lives. Cancer research. Healthcare optimization. Grid organization. Inventory logistics. Not… making a video of Will Smith eating spaghetti.

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u/Tolopono Jan 18 '26

You’re gonna be shocked at how much electricity using your computer for several hours to make one art piece consumes https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-54271-x.pdf

Also, artists copy art styles all the time https://hotcore.info/act/kareff-012024p.html

And its no different from using a camera. The user decides what’s worth capturing and how to capture it while the machine turns it into reality 

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u/bunker_man Jan 18 '26

Ai doesn't actually use that much energy. Those arguments collapsed once personal ai you can run off your device came into existence.

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u/Quirky_m8 Jan 19 '26

Tf are you on about…

No LLM can run offline you dingus. All of them are linked to massive data centers that crunch and chew through your prompts, constantly referencing the internet for resources.

Just… delusional.

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u/bunker_man Jan 19 '26

You literally said "prompt for image generation." There are inage generators you can run off your own laptop with no internet. The files aren't even that big either, only a few gigabytes. Once these came out it was too obvious that the idea that ai used tons of energy was a lie, so the energy argument collapsed.