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I mean they already gave away the whole game, didn’t they? There’s only one possible piece of technology that meets all that criteria, and it was perfected long ago.
Should be pretty cheap, I hear they work for peanuts (and the occasional cracker)…
Personally, I think it will be a walkman that only plays an AI-generated music stream.
Ok, I get the idea of the laptop and desktop, but the carbon footprint is for the human existing for the length of time it takes to write something. They say as much – it’s assuming their emissions while writing are consistent with their overall annual emissions. Doesn’t that mean the footprint for the human should be zero, unless you imagine they’re going to stop existing if they don’t write something? 
Not to mention that the volume of disconnected texts and strange illustrations that AI creates per minute is many, many times greater than those created by flesh-and-blood artists and dilettantes.
I mean, to make the comparison at all I’m accepting the premise that they simply want the page filled with text and don’t really care about what it says. The environmental impact is a real question and that’s probably the only way to assess it, since if you did care then the writer might well be the whole point. I had marveled about this before, but I think Ed Zitron really hit it the piece linked above:
These people don’t want to automate work, they want to automate existence. They fantasize about hitting a button and something happening, because experiencing — living! — is beneath them, or at least your lives and your wants and your joy are. They don’t want to plan their kids’ birthday parties. They don’t want to research things. They don’t value culture or art or beauty. They want to skip to the end, hit fast-forward on anything, because human struggle is for the poor or unworthy.
This is 4 yrs old but quite good
All LLMs are prima facie in breach of GDPR.
Change my mind.
Imma call bullshit at this, just at first glance, the magic Chat GPT of low carbon usage also has a laptop or desktop on top of the pollution caused by the usage of the server farm.
Also, I don’t know what it’s like elsewhere, but here in Ireland the server farm emissions are bullshit. We don’t know how much they do. They have exemptions from the EPA and stacks of diesel generators for when the grid is under pressure.
They are fucking filthy.
And filthy liars of course.
And there are people who think it’s good to do therapy with AI instead of human psychologists.
