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I wonder what the environmental cost of those 700 million morons is. It must be truly staggering.
Many years ago, I heard a Google search (without any “AI”) required the same amount of energy required to raise 100 ml of water from room temperature to boiling temperature. That’s ~33 kJ per search. 700 million searches per week is roughly 38 megawatts (around 40 percent of the world’s largest solar farm; or around 30 average sized solar farms)
We can safely assume this AI stuff requires a lot(!) more…
In early April, the company’s COO, Brad Lightcap, said that more than 130 million users had created over 700 million images in just a few days after the launch.
Sooooo worth it /s
Generating images was by far the most energy- and carbon-intensive AI-based task. Generating 1,000 images with a powerful AI model, such as Stable Diffusion XL, is responsible for roughly as much carbon dioxide as driving the equivalent of 4.1 miles in an average gasoline-powered car.
Especially for everyone lucky enough to live next to one.
so like driving nearly 3 million miles in a few days? jeez.
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This means they are losing more money than before, as these things run at a loss.
