You both used the same “white people” label, I would think any of the two could give me an answer.

I was wrong to think you were trying to debate in good faith. Hell, you didn’t even back up your own claims.

Have a good day.

That’s not what I’m asking. Also, I wasn’t using the term in any way or form.

To be fair, LTT has had a very long history of shitting on Linux, while giving Windows a free pass.

Happens all the time. Also, nerds tend to overestimate the amount of resources, like time or money, someone would put on something they care about.

Right here in Lemmy I had this interaction where someone argued that if one were to lose their photos because Google had an oopsie, it’s kind of their fault because they didn’t have a backup plan.

Here’s another one: if a Latino doesn’t now what “woke” means, does that make them white?

I see, essentially this is vibe testing for race.

I was confused because I went to the census website and it looks like northern African and Middle Eastern people are considered white, something I thought most Americans wouldn’t agree with. Your response makes more sense.

Honest question here from a non US American: who are considered “white”?

No response? Too bad, I thought you could debate in good faith, I guess I was wrong.

What is with all this bullshit pro-AI slop propaganda I’ve been seeing on Lemmy, lately? Been seeing lots of mfers invade these communities and spread bullshit.

I don’t know about Lemmy specifically, but in my experience, unskilled people who love AI are extremely vocal about it, to the point where some would go as far as to denigrate actually skilled people.

My hypothesis is that AI exacerbates the Dunning Kruger effect.

I didn’t say anything that was wrong. In fact, I just asked you a perfectly reasonable question about this model bundled in Chrome, and then you went haywire.

Regardless, I’m no AI researcher, and I suspect that you aren’t either, so I asked you to specify because I could tell that “art” is doing some really heavy lifting here, in the sense that you seem to think that AI can “create” art that is, in any way or form, important or innovative enough to justify its energy usage or the ramifications of it, like the increased cost in wholesale electricity, and thus electricity bills, see https://www.eesi.org/articles/view/data-center-power-demands-are-contributing-to-higher-energy-bills and https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-ai-data-centers-electricity-prices/

So, is McDonald’s bad for the environment? Sure it is. But food goes to feed people. How much do you think diffusion generated images are worth, compared to a cow? And oil companies, they are definitely bad for the environment as well, and turns out 40% of the energy consumed by data centers comes from natural gas. If we assume that demand drives production, then we should agree that data centers should minimize the use of gas. By the way, 4% of the total energy production in the US goes to power these data centers, see https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/10/24/what-we-know-about-energy-use-at-us-data-centers-amid-the-ai-boom/. I would say that if we could reduce that number by cutting off AI clip art generation, it would be a net win for everyone.

What fields, specifically?

I’m trying to understand why there’s so much angry energy here. Some of my colleagues work in research and none of them come across as an AI evangelist, not even close. Even more, there are a lot of valid concerns coming from them, from copyright infringements to privacy to accuracy. In engineering, there’s that, plus security, and above all, cost. Training and running models is extremely expensive and it may not even yield the desired results.

So what’s your angle here?

Is AI your field of work or research? Genuinely curious.

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Data center operators can and will negotiate yearly rates for bulk electricity up. That’s how they can guarantee supply, by paying more than the competition. Small local distributors will never have that kind of leverage, that’s why consumers end up paying more.

So yes, you are correct in saying that corporations and billionaires are the problem, but in this particular case, it’s because of a particular subset of those.

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I don’t hate AI. I work for an AI company. But I hate the uselessness of a lot of the AI derived products. So, for me, burning a single drop of oil to write an email in business speech, post a video of a kitten in a superman outfit, or make a Trump Jesus pic, is a waste.

And in many ways, AI is actively making the world worse too, from big tech stealing content from everyone to train their models, to deepfake content flooding social media, there’s no good coming out of that. So maybe you should chill a bit before going off rails like you did.

If it succeeds, then great, people will have a faster, safer Bun.

If it fails, then great, one less JS runtime.

It’s a win-win!

Jeez, calm your tits, I think I asked politely enough so I wouldn’t deserve this kind of response.

My question was what do you think this particular model does, not what is achievable with AI in general. And I’m asking because a model that weights 4GB is not some trivial thing that every Chrome user wants or needs loaded in memory.

What do you think this nano model actually achieves?

Because I know why someone would want to eat a burger, or fill up a tank, but why would anyone want this running in their computers?