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Mother Nature is being destroyed by Generative AI. What can we do about it?
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Generative AI and the Environment
Generative AI is an environmental disaster unfolding as we speak.
When entire countries are struggling for water, and the world is suffering from the catastrophic effects of runaway global warming:
The installation and operation of LLMs is guzzling fresh-water and emitting CO2 like crazy, almost without limits.
The greed of Microsoft, OpenAI, xAI, Meta Platforms, and even Google is killing the earth itself.
This is corporate greed at its worst.
Prioritizing profits in developed countries at the expense of hundreds of millions in the poorest.
Here are some statistics about Large Language Models and their destructive threat to the environment.
OpenAI o1 (and soon, o3) is perhaps the worst offender.