this post was submitted on 22 Feb 2026
990 points (97.1% liked)
Microblog Memes
10944 readers
2652 users here now
A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.
Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.
RULES:
- Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
- Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
- You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
- Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
- Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
- Absolutely no NSFL content.
- Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
- No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.
RELATED COMMUNITIES:
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
People need to explain in clear detail to others the environmental impact of ai and how it causes that impact. You’re telling people that making a funny photo is fucking up the environment, you have to be more clear. Im not a dummy but the idea that ai is damaging the actual environment is vague and nebulous. It’s never been explained or shown to people in large way how it’s actually happening, so it’s not real to people because it’s not widely explained
The thing is that image generators aren't even such big environmental hazards. They are often comparable to other activities like gaming, since you can often run them locally. At scale that's also a bad thing to have, but we don't get people up in arms about many equivalent things.
It's the biggest LLMs that are extraordinarily inefficient, since you need entire compute clusters to get those running. There's just not really a way to put every AI tech into the same box except by not caring about the truth, so it makes the people that don't draw that nuance look very scummy to people aware of that nuance.