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Generative AI’s environmental costs are soaring — and mostly secret (www.nature.com)

submitted 7 months ago by Sal@mander.xyz to c/generative_ai@mander.xyz

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[–] LufyCZ@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

My point mostly was, it's a issue of datacenters, not of AI itself, and it feels like the only reason they wrote the article is to get clicks on a buzzword.

But yeah, AI will gobble up insane amounts of energy, though I think it'd be interesting to see how much it ends up saving overall.

It's not like the point of AI is to throw the output into a black hole, it's to optimize workflows.

If I spend 30 minutes writing an article or 15s writing a prompt, hasn't AI actually helped me use less energy to power my computer, my brain and body etc?

Nothing is as black and white as it might seem, and AI is no exception