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Tip_Odde t1_j1wmhar wrote

Well, technically there is something wrong with buying off the rack. Especially if its fast fashion, but that only applies to you if you can afford more environmentally sustainable clothes.

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thetwitchy1 OP t1_j1wwbnh wrote

The same really applies to AI art, but you don’t say that too loudly in this sub.

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Tip_Odde t1_j1wxxma wrote

So you dont know how destructive fast fashion is huh

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thetwitchy1 OP t1_j1x4suw wrote

Training a single AI for a particular process (which is required before you can even start producing images) releases 250,000 pounds of CO2. Then producing each image requires a significant amount of data processing. AI art has a similar carbon footprint to crypto, but it is more front-loaded (the costs are earlier in the process, rather than later like crypto).

I'm not saying fast fashion is fine. I'm saying there's a lot of environmental costs to AI art that are not even acknowledged by proponents of it.

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Tip_Odde t1_j1xejub wrote

Yes, technological advancement requires energy. Its not anywhere near the same as the objectively short term goals of fast fashion and the ecological disaster it is.

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