Comment on Google's AI-powered search summaries use 10x more energy than a standard Google search | The Hidden Environmental Impact of AI

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• daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Google ghg emissions in 2023 are 14.3 million metric tons. Which are a ridiculous percentage of global emissions.

  Commercial aviation emissions are 935.000 million metric tons by year.

  So IDK about plastic straws or google. But really if people stopped flying around so much that would actually make a dent on global emissions.

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  • masquenox@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But they are not the ones causing climate change

    The owners of google are capitalists. They are as responsible for climate change as any other capitalist.

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    • NewNewAccount@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Capitalists serve customers and do not operate in a vacuum. This finger pointing does nothing productive.

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      • avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Capitalists have captured regulation and to a large extent democracy in the US. So finger pointing towards them is entirely useful.

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      • masquenox@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Capitalists serve customers hoard wealth through reckless profiteering irregardless of the costs to the rest of human society and do not operate in a vacuum.

        FTFY. I do agree with your last part, though. The political racketeers that enable them and the fascist security institutions that protect them are equally as culpable as they are.

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  • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    i cant afford to ride airplanes. you are welcome.

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  • PanArab@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’d rather we give up AI than give up meat or flying. I am not taking a ship half way across the world.

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    • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You do you. But other people may have other priorities.

      Anyway, how many times have an user to use an AI to even come close to a single commercial plate through the Atlantic? It may be a freaking lot.

      You giving away AI, or even forcing all humandkind to do so, might as well do nothing as far as climate change is concerned.

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      • Ibuthyr@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I still believe there are other priorities over one trip every couple of years. Flight is one of the greatest achievements of humanity and I firmly believe it is important to visit other cultures.

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• Invalid_hihdk_263637@lemy.lol ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Congratulations sir, best comment I read since I joined here.

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  • nehal3m@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    …You joined 3 days ago. 🤣

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    • Invalid_hihdk_263637@lemy.lol ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes, and read your whole one year comment history. You were totally a redditor right?

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      • nehal3m@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Sadly, yes.

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• nialv7@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sounds like not using Google search would be a way more effective way of reducing CO2

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