They said that AI is polluting worse than global air travel. They are mixing up pollution vs energy used. If it was pollution global air travel creates 80 Million Tons of CO a month. All AI in use is 15 million tons a month. Global air travel is far more polluting.
As an aside, and this is crazy: there is a mention, in the article OP posted, that suggests that humans, are far worse than AI for CO creation depending on the task. Which I found surprising.
The data comes a paper in the journal Nature:
Our findings reveal that AI systems emit between 130 and 1500 times less CO2e per page of text generated compared to human writer, while AI illustration systems emit between 310 and 2900 times less CO2e per image than their human counterparts. Emissions analyses do not account for social impacts such as professional displacement, legality, and rebound effects. In addition, AI is not a substitute for all human tasks. Nevertheless, at present, the use of AI holds the potential to carry out several major activities at much lower emission levels than can humans.
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
They said that AI is polluting worse than global air travel. They are mixing up pollution vs energy used. If it was pollution global air travel creates 80 Million Tons of CO a month. All AI in use is 15 million tons a month. Global air travel is far more polluting.
As an aside, and this is crazy: there is a mention, in the article OP posted, that suggests that humans, are far worse than AI for CO creation depending on the task. Which I found surprising.
The data comes a paper in the journal Nature:
Ok I honestly did not see that coming.
jbk@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
lmao time for a new wave of doomerism and anti-humanity