Okay, so are these 8 pages of motivated reasoning formatted like they've been submitted to Science or to Nature?

https://assets.researchsquare.com/files/rs-2724922/v1_covered.pdf?c=1680083818

Look, you can't count the carbon emissions that people have for (check notes) existing as the "carbon cost" of the work that they do.

I can't believe this needs to be said, but: LLMs are *optional*. Humans are not.

@emilymbender
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and some "researchers" have lost it;
completely
- the most absurd start -
Nevertheless, at present, the use of AI holds the potential to carry out several major activities at much lower emission
levels than can humans.