Generative AI’s environmental costs are soaring — and mostly secret - eviltoast
First-of-its-kind US bill would address the environmental costs of the technology, but there’s a long way to go.

one assessment suggests that ChatGPT, the chatbot created by OpenAI in San Francisco, California, is already consuming the energy of 33,000 homes. It’s estimated that a search driven by generative AI uses four to five times the energy of a conventional web search. Within years, large AI systems are likely to need as much energy as entire nations.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    The only thing that is clear is that you seem to think you’re entitled to multiple responses when you reply to a single post of mine multiple times.

    That… and the fact that you aren’t denying that you believe corporations should be expected to do whatever they want as long as no one makes it illegal.