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Is generative AI bad for the environment? A computer scientist explains

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By Kate Saenko

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A study by Google found that for the same size, using a more efficient model architecture and processor and a greener data center can reduce the carbon footprint by 100 to 1,000 times.

Just hope that ASI, in a drive for more computational resource, doesn't decide when it has the infrastructure to start converting the matter of the inner planets into computronium, or construct a Matrioshka brain around the Sun.

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One might note that the carbon footprint of the Department of Computer Science at Boston University is not appended to this article.

Syndicating an article invites readership. Disregarding the writing and proofing, whilst the article is being read, readers are using electricity. So a syndicated article has a carbon footprint too. Go viral and it rockets.

Everything we do has a carbon footprint, so it can easily be weaponised as the ultimate mechanism for social control.

Measuring social, personal and economic value against carbon footprints is a slippery slope, as it is too subjective to measure (that is, 'easy to fiddle'). Ultimately, governments (on the advice of government scientists) will use this to justify doing the Chinese thing, shutting down anything that empowers individuals at the expense of the state. Just wait and see.

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Nope it's not bad for the environment

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