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I feel like theres gonna be a big push on 'ethically' trained genAI soon & I just wanna remind people that even if they remove all the issues with what they train on, the **process** of training them and use of genAI is inherently bad due to the environmental impacts.

📰 news.mit.edu/2025/explain...
screenshot of an article with the following text: The power needed to train and deploy a model like OpenAI’s GPT-3 is difficult to ascertain. In a 2021 research paper, scientists from Google and the University of California at Berkeley estimated the training process alone consumed 1,287 megawatt hours of electricity (enough to power about 120 average U.S. homes for a year), generating about 552 tons of carbon dioxide. While all machine-learning models must be trained, one issue unique to generative AI is the rapid fluctuations in energy use that occur over different phases of the training process, Bashir explains. Power grid operators must have a way to absorb those fluctuations to protect the grid, and they usually employ diesel-based generators for that task. Increasing impacts from inference Once a generative AI model is trained, the energy demands don’t disappear. Each time a model is used, perhaps by an individual asking ChatGPT to summarize an email, the computing hardware that performs those operations consumes energy. Researchers have estimated that a ChatGPT query consumes about five times more electricity than a simple web search. “But an everyday user doesn’t think too much about that,” says Bashir. “The ease-of-use of generative AI interfaces and the lack of information about the environmental impacts of my actions means that, as a user, I don’t have much incentive to cut back on my use of generative AI.” Article is 'Explained: Generative AI’s environmental impact' by Adam Zewe in MIT News.
March 28, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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January 22, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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January 16, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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January 21, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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January 15, 2025 at 7:45 PM