I tried a few different free apps rather than the official apps of one of the ai vendors. I guess I assumed that most of them were doing their thinking locally but I never tried on airplane mode.

I did caveat my top level comment.

Maybe the generation is happening elsewhere.

I find it unlikely that someone might be on Lemmy and not be aware about the basics of how ““AI”” actually works.

That feels unnecessarily aggressive?

I don’t really use it because I don’t like it, so I haven’t bothered to read much about it. I tried some local stable diffusion image generation and it didn’t seem to strain my gaming computer much. I don’t have a power measuring device.

I tried stuff like Claude which I know is running remotely, and I assumed Gemini is remote since Google wouldn’t pass up a chance to exfiltrate more of my data.

I don’t understand these lines of headline. Where is that much power being consumed? I can probably generate a second video on my phone in a few seconds, and I doubt it’s using much more power than usual. Maybe the generation is happening elsewhere.

If you put a Kill-a-Watt on the power cable coming into your PC at home, will you see a huge spike on power consumption when you generate something?

I’ve heard people say this with my own IRL ears. It’s completely indefensible.

Thank you - I appreciate it. Will read up!

Ouch, that hurts.

That sounds awesome. I’ll see if I can find it

It does look nice! Are you familiar with the languages and frameworks it used, so that you could potentially clean it up under the hood?

Out of curiosity, why did you ask for a self hosted version instead of making a little web app and sharing it? I wouldn’t think you’d have any data in there worth protecting.

As have i.

Never seen that, I’ll check it out!

As another non vegan (AKA “carnist”) I agree FWIW.

Time to rewatch The West Wing again.

And how did they get dusted with glitter?!

Sure, but it sounds like every player would need to fall in the same hole or they couldn’t progress.

I’m sure they managed, but that’s not a great design.

I figured you would be!

I was going to recommend you to the OP!

TIL. Thanks.

That’s frustrating. How were you meant to find that?

Is there no sense in which we can say, actually no: a culture in which slavery is okay is a flawed culture; it is better to have a culture that does not promote this sort of thing?

I would certainly prefer that the arc of time bend towards people and the environment having more protection/freedom/rights than the other way around, but without an external directive I don’t believe that it’s meaningful to use labels like “correct” in this context. For your specific examples, I would rather say something like “Nazi Germany and the Confederacy were below the contemporaneous and current commonly-held threshold for human rights.” That’s a self-important mouthful, which I already regret typing out.

Any evaluation of another culture is necessarily done through the lens of the evaluator’s opinions and preferences, which are (by default) a product of their home culture. I hope I’m explaining my view clearly; I certainly am not arguing that those societies were not abominable places to live, led by awful people.

This implies that certain cultures’ mores are more correct than others’, which probably feels right to you because those countries’ norms align more closely with yours.

As a vegan, I don’t think is the case! I think our cultures norms around animals does not align closely what feels right to me at all.

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For example there some Indigenous or Inuit cultures in rural Canada or Greenland that still partly live their traditional ways of life. I think those cultures are actually better than ours.

I feel like these two statements are in contradiction? You state that some traditional cultures are better because they align with your beliefs, which was my argument. Again, I’m not saying that those cultures are NOT an improvement over my own in this particular regard, based on my own view of morality, just that my opinion on the subject is my own and not “The Correct Opinion”.

Again, I mean absolutely no disrespect and am just trying to stretch my smooth and rarely-used brain a bit. Feel free to simply ignore me.

You betcha!

Certainly possible!