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highplainsdem

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7. I wonder how much of the data centers is needed just for AI slop. Google's Gemini allows 1,000 images a day

Reply to flashman13 (Reply #5)

Thu Mar 5, 2026, 05:31 PM

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for the $20 tier. 100 a day for the free tier, Billions of worthless images generated every month, maybe every day, almost all discarded immediately as more images are generated in seconds, until the AI user gets something they want to try to pretend is their own "art."

So much water, electricity and money being wasted for pure slop...but it does hook some people on AI so they don't care about all the harm it does.

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