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researchers have assessed that generating a single AI image requires the same amount of energy needed to fully charge your iPhone battery. Training an AI model also requires “626,000 pounds of carbon dioxide, or the equivalent of around 300 round-trip flights between New York and San Francisco—nearly five times the lifetime emissions of the average car.”
https://www.thealternative.org.uk/dailyalternative/2024/4/23/how-ai-cheapens-design
#LLM #AI #EnvironmentalFootprint #carbon_footprint
researchers have assessed that generating a single AI image requires the same amount of energy needed to fully charge your iPhone battery. Training an AI model also requires “626,000 pounds of carbon dioxide, or the equivalent of around 300 round-trip flights between New York and San Francisco—nearly five times the lifetime emissions of the average car.”
https://www.thealternative.org.uk/dailyalternative/2024/4/23/how-ai-cheapens-design
#LLM #AI #EnvironmentalFootprint #carbon_footprint
From a designer’s perspective, AI is like the new version of plastic - distorting everything, at great ecological cost — THE ALTERNATIVE
Another stirring cross-post from Dieline magazine , from John Kazior, “a writer covering ecology and design in the climate crisis”, art director at the literary magazine the Drift and co-founder of Feral Malmö , a studio for urban-ecological practice and culture in southern Sweden. This is a tren
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