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[–] x0x7@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

Don't tell them that. They'll kidnap us an wire us into a human AI net all to generate pictures of boobs at lower cost.

[–] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Save power: imagine less boobs.

[–] Arfman@aussie.zone 3 points 4 hours ago
[–] Engywuck@lemmy.zip 59 points 1 day ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (6 children)

Watt is not an energy unit.

[–] absentbird@lemmy.world 8 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

People say this, but almost every time the time interval is left off it's hours.

Either way, the numbers in this meme are clearly made up. Most image generation uses fewer than 10 watt hours.

[–] Engywuck@lemmy.zip 6 points 15 hours ago

People say this, but almost every time the time interval is left off it's hours.

This is new for me. Must be some engineering thing. I'm a physicist and and I feel guilty if I leave out some units just because, lol.

[–] flandish@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

it’s about energy transfer though. transfer of titty whats to watts to my mind.

[–] HumanoidTyphoon@quokk.au 9 points 1 day ago

That’s just science

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Its continuous to keep the image active in your mind :)

[–] bryndos@fedia.io 3 points 1 day ago (4 children)

That'd need watt hours though. Meme is only showing the instantaneous power required to conjure the image for an infinitesimal amount of time - you cant do any useful 'work' with it unless the time is accounted for. Watt seconds maybe.

What makes me skeptikal of this data though is that the correct sciencing term for a billion watts is the well established 'jiggawatt'. In this context I'd have also accepted the Canadian spelling 'jigglewatt'.

[–] BussyGyatt@feddit.org 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

not "infinitesimal time." continuously. think of it like this: to continuously think up perky tits, it takes a human mind 12 watts- brain is a 12 watt computer. time interval is proportional to the number of titty images/length of titty video. and im psure an individual instance of titty ai doesn't come out to 2.7 jigglewatts- im like 80% sure i can get a (small) titty generator to run on my lil 50 watt phone. not testing that assumption today tho.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Yeah no. Imagine it like a computer and screen. To render an image it will momentarily consume a bit more power, but as soon as it has been rendered it will still continuosily consume a stable amount of x Watt to keep running and displaying the picture. For continuous stable operation of something with no specified time, Watt is the correct unit.

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[–] Steve@startrek.website 4 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

And the text dosnt specify a time interval, whats your point?

[–] Engywuck@lemmy.zip 5 points 17 hours ago

That watts by themselves mean nothing with regard to energy consumption.

[–] REDACTED 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Also, it literally is an energy unit used in measurements. It's meant as a continious power. Ie. Your active imagination consumes around 12 watts of power, not "rendering one image"

[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] REDACTED 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Power is energy per unit of time. Energy is power over a period of time. A lightning strike is about 1 GJ of energy. But it happens in a split second, so the power is far higher, say 100 GW. That is the output of 100 nuclear power plants. But only for 0.01 seconds.

TNT is even more extreme. It can detonate in microseconds, so release its energy in a fraction of a millisecond. 1 kg contains about 4 MJ of energy, released in about 10 microseconds, a power of about 300 GW. That is about as much power as all of the USA combined needs.

[–] REDACTED 1 points 2 hours ago

Power is energy per unit of time

Thanks.

[–] BlueMagma@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 hours ago

You are off by a factor of ~250, it's 1.21 Gigawatts

[–] joelfromaus@aussie.zone 7 points 23 hours ago

Watt would you suggest?

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 25 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I think I just burned a kilowatt of energy thanks to this meme. 🤤

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 10 points 21 hours ago (2 children)
[–] four@lemmy.zip 4 points 12 hours ago

No, they just imagined ~800 tits. Maybe even at once.

The image in the post also uses watts where watt-hours might be more applicable, so we are already more in the realm of memes than science

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 8 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Hour…

You’re being very generous. 😅

[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago

Kilowatt is not a unit of energy.

[–] VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 1 day ago

No wait time either. I did it while reading the sentence.

[–] Mambert@beehaw.org 13 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Some of us have aphantasia. AI fat perky tits is an aid to the disabled.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 12 points 23 hours ago

BI (biological intelligence) has luckily devised ways to get photographic replications of real fat perky tits through transformations of electromagnetic waves right to your retinas and thus into your brain. And it still takes less energy than AI.

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[–] essteeyou@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

How much does it cost if οne person imagines it, generates an image, shares that, and 10k people see the image, and avoid imagining it?

[–] crmsnbleyd@sopuli.xyz 4 points 11 hours ago

10k * 12 < 2 billion

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Must be nice, phantasics.

[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 9 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

The AI provides exponentially better results, if you are me

[–] crmsnbleyd@sopuli.xyz 1 points 11 hours ago

skill issue

[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 13 points 1 day ago

I really enjoyed those fat perky tits thanks fossilesque

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 day ago

I would have preferred a pic of the titties rather than a fibre optic brain.

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