Fuck you, no one cares. Least of all the so-called "tech giants" that claim to be "climate friendly". Every single one of them gave up on being "carbon zero" the second GPT was launched and saw what it was doing.
Who would have thought, to get all of the companies off the "but muh climate change" bandwagon you just had to make a LLM that was actually useful (sometimes) then everyone went "oh fuck, burn the oil or we all go out of business".
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>If you care about the environment, it can be hard to tell how you should feel about using AI models such as ChatGPT in your everyday life.
The carbon cost of asking an artificial intelligence model a single text question can be measured in grams of CO2 — which is something like 0.0000001 percent of an average American’s annual carbon footprint. A query or two or 1,000 won’t make a huge dent over the course of a year.
But those little costs start to add up when you multiply them across 1 billion people peppering AI models with requests for text, photos and videos. The data centers that host these models can devour more electricity than entire cities. Predictions about their rapid growth have pushed power companies to extend the lives of coal plants and build new natural gas plants. Keeping those computers cool uses freshwater — about one bottle’s worth for every 100 words of text ChatGPT generates.
Fuck you, no one cares. Least of all the so-called "tech giants" that claim to be "climate friendly". Every single one of them gave up on being "carbon zero" the second GPT was launched and saw what it was doing.
Who would have thought, to get all of the companies off the "but muh climate change" bandwagon you just had to make a LLM that was actually useful (sometimes) then everyone went "oh fuck, burn the oil or we all go out of business".
Archive: https://archive.today/JoHWe
From the post:
>>If you care about the environment, it can be hard to tell how you should feel about using AI models such as ChatGPT in your everyday life.
The carbon cost of asking an artificial intelligence model a single text question can be measured in grams of CO2 — which is something like 0.0000001 percent of an average American’s annual carbon footprint. A query or two or 1,000 won’t make a huge dent over the course of a year.
But those little costs start to add up when you multiply them across 1 billion people peppering AI models with requests for text, photos and videos. The data centers that host these models can devour more electricity than entire cities. Predictions about their rapid growth have pushed power companies to extend the lives of coal plants and build new natural gas plants. Keeping those computers cool uses freshwater — about one bottle’s worth for every 100 words of text ChatGPT generates.
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