Like all automation, it would be cool if it didn't mean workers were staring down the barrel of capitol's gun. I love the cool art machine learning models can generate. Would be even cooler if we lived in a world where this didn't threaten anybody and couldn't be used as a cudjol.
We can make a world where this is the case. Suck my guts (girl nuts) for more objectively correct takes you slop hogs.
It's not going to start using 0.2% of global energy usage like Ethereum did.
True, it's not gonna be that bad, but the ease of use means that people are going to make a lot of it. At the very least I think there's potential for the energy cost of AI-generated art (factoring in discarded/unused generated video/images) to be pretty high.