Hello, Ive been using perchance so non stop since its inception, The note that is now gone said that it would be training. How long till it does faces again like before? - Dont get me wrong how well it handles prompts now as far as getting ecactly the things you specified is awesome, but the models for faces, its all the same lips and hair EVERY time, and faces i used to get flawless are now nowhere close. It will do marilyn Monroe perfectly, but wont do anyone rlse less famous very good at all which it used to do. TIRED of the teased hair and botox/lip fillers. If it did faces like it used to with these new improvements it would be perfect
The environmental impact is mostly bullshit tho. People using it as a reason just makes their whole opinion seem dumb.
How do you reckon that? The companies themselves are trying to reopen coal plants and xAI is burning natural gas to get the energy for training. Those things have a proven impact on the climate.
Its all to do with how to grid works. Compute loads are large stable loads with ability to perform instant load ramping. The base load of the power grid is increasing (as it has done basically forever) base load is provided by slow to ramp stable large energy sources operating at heigh efficiency (nuclear, coal, geothermal etc) then u have a varying load which is the instant to instant power usage. Renewables provide unstable sources. If the renewables turn off (clouds, the wind stops etc etc) then u need to either generate more power to compensate or shed load. A compute resource can instantly shed load and sell that power they have provisioned back to the grid at a profit. Its using more power yes but it’s stabilising the grid which is the big issue with renewables.
Xai is simply using industrial generators that would usually be busy making power for something else they are not increasing the net carbon output they are simply reallocating it. It does have proven impact but on the scale of global carbon emissions its fuck all.
Ai uses energy --> Using AI to make stupid shit uses energy for stupid things.
You can use mental gymnastics as much as you want about base load of electric grid or stabilising the load or what ever, but it does not change the fact that when you use AI it uses energy that would not be used othewise.
Saying that it does not matter if the generator powers your AI waifu or something else is just moronic. I can also say that leaving my tv on or not shutting my lights when leaving the house effects jack all in the global sense, but that is not reason to not shut those down when i leave my apartment.
How much energy is it worth wasting on stupid shit for our entertainment? U don’t need lights it would be far more efficient if u used a headtorch. Is the energy usage of ur TV worth the entertainment u get from it?