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How many silly Bitcoin networks' worth of energy are required to train the models that generate these silly JPEGs?

FTFY

Exactly this. People who don't value Bitcoin or what it stands for say it's a waste of resources. Same can be said about AI image generation and LLMs

> People who don't value Bitcoin or what it stands for say it's a waste of resources.

What? Even if you do value Bitcoin, you're going to make a pretty uphill argument that it's an efficient/effective use of resources to mine.

Less resources than traditional money printing/distribution/banking.

What about traditional credit/electronic banking?

Probably still yes if you include all the employees' professional carbon footprint.

Since banking is a solved problem, it sounds like getting rid of BTC would save some CO2 output.

As a completely random guess I'd say... 1/10_000_0000 of a BTC network?