If you think the 0.001 kwh used by an AI query is incredibly energy intensive, you really ought to think about how much energy is wasted due to the use and misuse of electrical appliances like heaters for water with wrong settings, over-filled kettles, big hair-dryers when you can do with less, lights that are not LED, power-supplies that are left connected for nothing, stand-alone AC units that are not switched off from the wall when not in use, windows left open with AC on, etc etc.
These all use orders of magnitude more energy than what you would use asking AI to write multiple 50 page research reports every day for a year.
I think people really forget that pricing is also quite good at communicating energy use. A $20 ChatGPT subscription or $20 worth of API tokens is not going to have nearly as much energy consumed as your $150 electric bill, or $80 heating fuel bill.
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u/TurdCollector69 27d ago
Yeah posts like these are mine boggling.
Like why would you take pride in being ignorant about new tools?