If so, I’d like to know about that questions:
- Do you use an code autocomplete AI or type in a chat?
- Do you consider environment damage that use of AIs can cause?
- What type of AI do you use?
- Usually, what do you ask AIs to do?
If so, I’d like to know about that questions:
I use autocomplete, asking chat, and full agentic code generation with Cline & Claude.
I don’t consider environmental damage by AI because it is a negligible source of such damage compared to other vastly more wasteful industries.
I am primarily interested in text generation. The only use I have for generated pictures, voices, video or music is to fuck around. I think I generated my D&D character portrait. My last portrait was a stick man.
What I ask it to do? My ChatGPT history is vast and covers everything from “how is this word used” to “what drinks can I mix given what’s in my liquor cabinet” to “analyze code for me” to “my doctor ordered some labs and some came back abnormal, what does this mean? Does this test have a high rate I’d false positive?” to “someone wrote this at me on the internet, help me understand their point” to “someone wrote this at me in the internet, how can I tell them to fuck the fuck off… nicely?” And I write atrocious fiction.
Oh I use it a lot to analyze articles and identify bias, reliability, look up other related articles, things that sound bad but really don’t mean anything and point out gaps in the journalistic process (I.e. shoddy reporting).
I also have written a discord dungeon master bot. It works poorly due to aggressive censorship and slop on open AI.
The effects are far from negligible compared to other industries. A very small percentage of people world wide use it and even still, the amount of data centers and sizes and the rise in power costs are insane.
It’s actually extremely intense compared to other industries.
You’re looking at secondary effects with a lot of causes, then assuming the cause. Energy prices are far more complicated than just AI. My prices are up because trade war with Canada.
At this point I feel like you’re a bot. I’m no expert in the subject but there’s plenty of evidence showing the insane amount of resources or request which becomes monumental as the requests become more in depth.
The sky rocketing energy prices may not be felt everywhere just yet but they are felt near data centers that are sprouting up every where. And we’re just getting started.
For the “insane amount of resources per request”, let me show you some real evidence.
My computer has a 65 Watt cpu. It takes about 70 seconds per request. That’s ~1.26 Wh or 790 requests/kWh.
And that’s with a cpu. Servers use gpus which are more optimized for the task.