But that’s (very clearly) beside the point, which is that you can run a variety of models locally on your PC or phone for miniscule energy. Once a model is trained the damage has already been done.
As always, it’s the corporations using the resources and doing the damage, so pearl clutching about random individuals is less than useless.
Try for yourself https://github.com/ShiftHackZ/Stable-Diffusion-Android
But that’s (very clearly) beside the point, which is that you can run a variety of models locally on your PC or phone for miniscule energy. Once a model is trained the damage has already been done.
As always, it’s the corporations using the resources and doing the damage, so pearl clutching about random individuals is less than useless.