• Grimy@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    There’s probably a bigger impact when you consider how paint and brushes are manufactured and the fact that it’s most likely shipped here from other countries.

    It’s also laughable how little actual energy one picture takes to generate.

    It’s a non starter when you actual compare it to something physical. It’s like saying sending a normal letter is better for the environment then an email.

    • mutual_ayed@sh.itjust.works
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      17 hours ago

      The issue is the infrastructure and scale. Hundreds of thousands of these images are created every day.

      I don’t know your workflow but it usually takes quite a few iterations before someone gets the image they want. It’s the literal definition of inefficiency because its rebuilding the diffusion every time, be that from cached memory or a new vector path.