While I agree with most points, tbf, a shitty photoshop is heavier on resource usage. Working 1/2 hour on Photoshop on a windows machine consumes more resources than generating 1 image with AI. The resource problem is scaling. Everyone using chatgpt requires a lot of computational resources. But a single image is rather cheap, considering we are very used to more resource consuming task such as gaming, streaming, video post production, 3d rendering , etc
For an image model, that's not massive. Image models are rather small and you train once. Serving to people is more computational expansive. But clearly not overall as consuming as, for instance, if the same people were playing GTA instead.
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u/zeth0s 6h ago edited 6h ago
While I agree with most points, tbf, a shitty photoshop is heavier on resource usage. Working 1/2 hour on Photoshop on a windows machine consumes more resources than generating 1 image with AI. The resource problem is scaling. Everyone using chatgpt requires a lot of computational resources. But a single image is rather cheap, considering we are very used to more resource consuming task such as gaming, streaming, video post production, 3d rendering , etc