Idgaf if you don’t want to write essays for school. I don’t care if you don’t want to write corporate emails yourself. I don’t care if you can’t draw well, I don’t care if you can’t write well, I don’t care if you just really really want to talk to your favorite fictional character but don’t want to RP with a real person because you have social anxiety or whatever
If you’re still regularly using generative ai, chatgpt or midjourney or character.ai or literally whatever the fuck, im personally blaming you when my utility prices start going up.
Why would utility prices go up because of ai?
(I am not defending the usage of generative AI/ChatGPT/Character.ai etc etc i am very much against it – I am just curious as to the correlation between using it and utility price surge please don’t come at me this is a genuine question)
Happy to help.
ChatGPT uses so much energy that the US is literally reversing course on coal and gas usage to make up for it. In Santa Clara, for example, data centers used 60% of the ENTIRE CITY’S electricity.
ChatGPT uses 1-3 bottles of water for cooling for every query you put into it. This is FRESH WATER, which is evaporated and eventually mostly returns to the ocean, effectively removing a lot of it from our already dwindling fresh water supply on the planet. It also consumes 17 THOUSAND TIMES more electricity than the average American home.
Gen AI’s water usage is projected to hit 6.6 BILLION meters cubed by 2027
More AI use = more data centers = power drain on local cities = gas, electricity, and water utility prices rise because all of our resources are being funneled into a machine that makes garbage
If most of the subject matter experts hate a particular technology and have a laundry list of specific technical reasons why, maybe listen to them instead of the marketing goon gushing about how great it is.
Generative tools have some cool applications, but their output is of limited value, the tech itself is being almost universally misunderstood and/or dangerously misapplied and comes at a cost that would be unsustainable even if it were far more justifiable than it is.
just want to add a little note to say: this electricity draw problem wider than generative AI. even before it got popular, the increase in renewable energy generation was barely keeping pace with increased demand for electricity. the promise of “make more renewable sources so we can shut down the coal plants!” has never come to fruition because we keep making more things electronic and electric. why is there a tv screen oreos billboard in my grocery store? why does my washer want to connect to the internet?
you should look at the world around you and think “hmm, was this the best use of that energy?”
amhrancas 