I know what you mean, but it’s not really possible to manually denoise a picture the way the AI denoiser does. Let alone within 10 seconds. Plus, it’s more of a niche usage. I don’t think it consumes all that much energy.

Generating shitty images, creating deepfakes, prompting all kinds of bullshit… now that is a waste of energy as it really just makes the world worse. AI generated articles are popping up all over the internet. They aren’t even reviewed anymore. Enshittification of the internet took some gigantic strides since the AI boom.

The only really useful AI thing is the denoiser in Adobe Lightroom. I can shoot pictures in pitch black darkness with the highest ISO settings. Obviously it is a grainy mess. The denoiser manages to clean that up while retaining all of the details. It’s really fucking great!

Anything else is just novelty bullshit.

I guess that’d work if you live in a very remote area, alone, without neighbors.

Most people who are against nuclear power, have the following reasons:

• it’s the most expensive form of energy due to massive regulations
• the power plants take way too long to build
• nuclear waste is a problem, no one wants to have it buried near their homes
• the fissile material is already rare and difficult to come by, mostly sourced from politically difficult regions, such as fucking Russia

Nuclear power is not a solution.