To think these AI caricatures can get in the bin

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It’s all over Facebook again. AIBU to find these so irritating.

It's just a bit of fun.

it’s on LinkedIn too…. irritating!

I couldn’t take an applicant seriously having posted that on their LinkedIn profile

The impact that AI has on the environment and this is the sort of shite it’s being used for 🙄

No it's not it's literally draining the world of precious resources.

I 100% agree, it’s completely unnecessary and this pointless use of AI is destroying the environment!

There is a town in America where the residents have no running water anymore because of AI.

@loellajames 😮

It’s very depressing 🤬

No there is not

There's another example somewhere else where it affects a whole town's water pressure but I can't find it!

I agree, except of course, those cats doing haircuts on dogs or shopping in a supermarket etc.

Just naff and unoriginal.

I’ve seen some people trying to advertise businesses using the artwork. I would never take anyone seriously who used this lazy slop to advertise for businesses.

It's an awful waste of resources and completely naff.

Hard agree. In a Facebook group I am on there is an annoying member that posts ‘Please!’ when the OP asks something without adding please or thank you. They now have one of these big head illustrations which makes their idiotic post that bit harder to skim over.

The annoying illustrations are usually holding and smelling flowers which makes it even more ridiculous

It's self indulgent rubbish and a complete waste of resources.

As far as resources go - this from Forbes magazine: "Everyone is worried about AI’s growing impact on the environment. That’s warranted, but the reality is that watching Netflix for an hour creates 500 times more CO₂ than sending two text prompts to Gemini or ChatGPT."

Anyone going to stop watching Netflix "for the environment"?

From the article, a comparison:

• YouTube or Netflix, 1 hour (HD)
• ~0.12 kWh → 42 g CO₂
• Tied for the dirtiest single activity in the study.
• Text-to-video generation, 6–10 seconds
• ~0.05 kWh → 17.5 g CO₂
• Roughly the same as an hour-long Zoom call.
• Zoom, 1 hour
• ~0.0486 kWh → 17 g CO₂
• Short email, no attachment
• ~0.0133 kWh → 4.7 g CO₂
• One email is tiny, billions per day are not.
• AI image generation, 1 image
• ~0.003 kWh → 1 g CO₂
• Voice assistant query (Alexa/Siri/etc.)
• ~0.0005 kWh → 0.175 g CO₂
• Google search or AI chatbot prompt
• ~0.0003 kWh → 0.105 g CO₂
• Two Gemini prompts
• ~0.00024 kWh → 0.084 g CO₂ total (~0.042 per prompt)

Link to full article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2025/12/03/new-data-ai-is-almost-green-compared-to-netflix-zoom-youtube/

People are so hypocritical about AI and the environment as if everything we do already isn't destroying it. If you complain about the impact of AI whilst you sit at home streaming Netflix, listening to music via Alexa and driving your car here and there you're ridiculous, frankly!

Whatever the energy drain is, it’s stealing from actual artists and making people thicker by the day.

But then so is using eg mumsnet, netflix etc it all uses computer servers in data centres

Completely agree, I have a complete sense of humour failure around this shit, it’s totally pointless and has nothing but a negative impact on the environment.

I feel like I’m constantly in an episode of Black Mirror where the general population are slowly killing the entire planet for the ability to create a shite picture to share online with no describable purpose.

Not to the level that AI usage does, it has a much higher impact.

So on the basis that we're already ruining the planet, it's fine to invent new ways to wreck it even more, just so that people can aimlessly generate poor-quality derivative slop?