
i’ve realized so many people in my life are like this and as much as it bad for the environment i don’t judge them! I just hate when they’re self righteous about it and judge others when at the end of the day, when things get rough, they use it too 😭 Not saying this is you btw just felt like yapping
If you did any research you can conclude that generative AI is extremely bad for the environment and plenty of impoverished communities have already had harmful impacts. Sorry that you don’t know how to use your brain or research without the help of a proven wrong generative AI engine like chat gpt
what takes resources is training the AI because of the power that GPUs require. what OP did had no more of an environmental impact than a google search. and given most people don’t care to actually change from the default search engine, i can almost guarantee that you use a chromium based search engine. and since google is a leading company in AI RnD, you are no better than the OP because you are giving to a company that promotes AI, same as them. use your brain maybe???
it takes no more resources than that search on your search engine with “-ai” in it. congress.gov shows data centers, including those meant for AI, taking 4.4% of Americas annual electrical consumption usage (2023). and they don’t use water like people say they do, it works no different than a water cooled PC or a car’s radiator, it’s a closed system. be mad at your government for not regulating where these data centers are allowed to be, not at AI for… nothing? tiktok knowledge fr