[bratgpttamer]

How many Bitcoin networks' worth of energy are required to train the models that generate these silly JPEGs?

[eulgro]

How many silly Bitcoin networks' worth of energy are required to train the models that generate these silly JPEGs?

FTFY

[zoklet-enjoyer]

Exactly this. People who don't value Bitcoin or what it stands for say it's a waste of resources. Same can be said about AI image generation and LLMs

[FireBeyond]

> People who don't value Bitcoin or what it stands for say it's a waste of resources.

What? Even if you do value Bitcoin, you're going to make a pretty uphill argument that it's an efficient/effective use of resources to mine.

[zoklet-enjoyer]

Less resources than traditional money printing/distribution/banking.

[nullindividual]

Since banking is a solved problem, it sounds like getting rid of BTC would save some CO2 output.

[patmorgan23]

What about traditional credit/electronic banking?

[drBonkers]

Probably still yes if you include all the employees' professional carbon footprint.

[tmtvl]

As a completely random guess I'd say... 1/10_000_0000 of a BTC network?