#thats saying a lot for this site

[celery505]

I found a tumblr i forgot I had from a couple of years ago. I made it then deleted it I think. I’m a changed man.

[cybertron-smash-or-pass]

When the fuck did that happen

[circusk]

just spent HOURSS!!!!! of my day . making fop family tree. its got 63 people rn uhmmm yeah

i think i have everyone . maybeee missing a cousin or two idk

[g1ngerbeer]

did tumblr fucking take away the ability to view other peoples reblog tags on a post in tumblr dot com slash url mode. whats even the point anymore

[lunatic-fandom-space]

I am preemptively very sorry for this but I can stop thinking about this and I need to share this stupid train of thoughts witb you all before I explode

So. you know how in Tanz der Vampire the vampire bite is explicitly a metaphor for sex? You know how, since we dont actually know how exactly theyre related, people write explanations of how von Krolock and Herbert came to both be vampires and father and son in their fanfics? You know how its pretty much always some flavor of "Herbert is the counts biological son from before he became a vampire, then he became a vampire and bit him"? Has anyone else ever thought about the weird implications of that or is that just me

[generationa1trauma]

I am kissing u all on the forehead

[heart-sprout]

No shade, but if this doesn't trigger 'scam' alarm bells in your mind, multiple times, then you need to update your internet safety skills

(I blocked them after that. If I am wrong I'd rather risk one upset commissioner vs getting scammed out of my time and skills as an artist)

[janokenmun]

i keep seeing a post with this image, and like

the math doesn't work out for this? Like at all?

tl;dr; using ai image generation MIGHT be cheaper than prison slave labor, if you're making over a thousand queries to it per hour for each person replaced. stuff like chatgpt is even cheaper

the paper Power Hungry Processing: Watts Driving the Cost of AI Deployment? goes into the energy cost of AI. it mentions that out of the machine learning models they studied, image generators were by far the most energy-intensive, with an average energy consumption of 2.907 kWh per 1,000 queries. that sounds like a lot! but how much does that cost?

according to the US' Energy Information Administration, the average cost of electricity varies by sector. let's go with the commercial one for this. on average, electricity costs about 0.132$ per kWh for them. which means that 1,000 queries of ai image generation would cost a grand total of about 38 cents on average. 0.38$. and that's just focusing on the most energy-heavy machine learning model type; text generators, like chatgpt, cost less than a cent per 1,000 queries on average

(as for the prison slave labor comparison, Prison Policy Initiative mentions that, for commercial labor in the US, the average minimum is 0.14$/hour and average maximum is 0.63$ per hour. state-owned businesses pay more)

there's one question left; what about *training* the models? that one's harder for me to find data on. i did find sources mentioning that gpt-3 took about 1,287,000 kWh of energy to train, which would cost about 170,000$ using the previous metric. that's *actually* a lot! but it's also worth remembering that once it's trained, you can just copy it and distribute it like that. so at that point, it depends on total usage. considering gpt-3 has been used in multiple other things such as github copilot and ai dungeon, it seems likely that it's been queried a lot, resulting in its cost-per-query from training to be pretty low (but i can't find solid statistics on this; if any y'all have some lmk!)

so basically ai image generation might be cheaper than prison slave labor if you're doing thousands of prompts an hour, and it's definitely cheaper than paying an actual artist. which is why businesses are using it to replace actual artists. text generators like chatgpt are even cheaper than that.

this, of course, does not take into account *quality* of the output; it's valid to argue that despite ai image gen being thousands of times cheaper than artists, it shouldn't be used anyway because it Sucks. nor does it take into account any ethical issues which i won't go into here.

[lesbianwithchainsaws]

I don't watch a lot of true crime/real life mysteries stuff on youtube, but every once in a while I do like to watch some of it, and I genuinely find it so difficult to listen to these people speak lately. "He was unalived", "pdf file", spelling out "s.a" or "s.h" instead of just saying the words out loud. If I ever get murdered and I hear a youtuber say I was "unalived" I'm haunting them forever

[terrorbirb]

I'm bored at work so I'm seeing if I should report my old company for violating labor standards.

[gifti3]

so yea running servers isnt like a cheap thing is what ive been learning these past couple weeks

[raskullion]

really wish more ppl didnt know what afab or amab means because if you called me a “afab, masc presenting non binary person” i think i would have to kill you

[liquidstar]

I'm glad the "Satire requires a clarity of purpose and target lest it be mistaken for and contribute to that which it intends to criticize" meme is getting critiqued in its usage because... While the sentiment itself is absolutely true... I feel like sometimes, perhaps, it's not a work of fiction's fault that you're personally bad at picking up on satire

[snekdood]

im not gonna act like its as severe as hindutvas make it out to be but if you deny hinduphobia exists you're just a dumbass i think

[robotsafari]

this is my guilty gear oc diamondback shes a bounty hunter who is also into the preservation of hundred year old videogames

[phagodyke]

sometimes I wish I was a more interesting + charismatic person just so I could keep conversations going bc I like sharing space with other ppl but they routinely lose all interest and leave once I run out of things to say/start talking abt things that don't concern them :-(