"Burning a rainforest" to generate a Mario Kart × Smash Bros mashup: the AI energy meme of the week
dtrinh · x · 2026-09-08
Daniel (Dtrinh) quipped that generating an AI mashup of Super Smash Bros and Mario Kart 64 is like "burning a rainforest," poking fun at the gap between video-generation compute costs and output. The line resonated widely as a meme about generative AI's energy use.
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