Remember when everyone was hating on NFTs and ETH due to carbon footprint? Yet everyone using chatgpt and AI for the dumbest shit without mentioning how much energy it spends.
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Remember when everyone was hating on NFTs and ETH due to carbon footprint? Yet everyone using chatgpt and AI for the dumbest shit without mentioning how much energy it spends.
I was reading something about this earlier this week. It's interesting how this information doesn't get in the media. People decided to turn a blind eye, after all, AI is being so helpful for everyone, right?
Chatgpt doesn't threaten the status quo.
There's still a lot of hate on AI for carbon footprint and water use! https://www.forbes.com/sites/cindygordon/2024/02/25/ai-is-accelerating-the-loss-of-our-scarcest-natural-resource-water/
And another one that I just saw: https://mashable.com/article/energy-ai-worse-than-we-thought
I've seen numbers showing people will use more energy making their daily coffee, but it adds up. I tell people that Hive uses minimal energy.