I just want to make funny Pictures.
Nearly nobody is arguing against using AI for personal fun.
People are arguing against AI destroying entire career segments without providing benefit to society, especially to those displaced. People are arguing against how it so easily misleads people, especially when used as a learning aid. People are arguing against the enormous resource usage.
My father in law told me how a guy at work created several pictures with AI for decorating the floor, bragging about saving costs since he didn’t use licensed pictures. But the AI may have used licensed pictures to learn creating those images. Artists lose money due to this being done by companies, which could very well afford paying the artists. I guess a private person creating memes with AI is not threatening anyone to lose their job.
There’s also the fact that it’s an ecological disaster when it comes to both carbon emissions and using up potable water.
That’s almost certainly more wasteful. The machines they run them on are going to be far more efficient.
Running it locally is better because of all the other data mining that goes along with capitalism
