I wonder what the environmental cost of those 700 million morons is. It must be truly staggering.
Many years ago, I heard a Google search (without any “AI”) required the same amount of energy required to raise 100 ml of water from room temperature to boiling temperature. That’s ~33 kJ per search. 700 million searches per week is roughly 38 megawatts (around 40 percent of the world’s largest solar farm; or around 30 average sized solar farms)
We can safely assume this AI stuff requires a lot(!) more…
In early April, the company’s COO, Brad Lightcap, said that more than 130 million users had created over 700 million images in just a few days after the launch.
Sooooo worth it /s
Generating images was by far the most energy- and carbon-intensive AI-based task. Generating 1,000 images with a powerful AI model, such as Stable Diffusion XL, is responsible for roughly as much carbon dioxide as driving the equivalent of 4.1 miles in an average gasoline-powered car.
Especially for everyone lucky enough to live next to one.
so like driving nearly 3 million miles in a few days? jeez.
Not surprised when this thing glows up everything you say and does everything but give you head (so far). People like to be right and feel smart and this thing is a sycophant.
This means they are losing more money than before, as these things run at a loss.
