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Simon Willison Oct 18, 2024

The environmental comparison I'd be interested in seeing is between a year of heavy personal usage of LLMs (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini etc) compared to the CO2 emissions from a single passenger flight

Can I do my own personal carbon offsetting by skipping one trip a year?

Does that question even make sense?

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David Colarusso

@simon I ran the numbers for excluding mammals from my diet, and it tends to offset CO2 from my personal flights. Some very rough calculations put a cheeseburger on par with about 12 hours of GPT use. So maybe. See https://suffolklitlab.org/protective-randomness-artificial-intelligence/ (the back of the envelope calculations are way down at the bottom, best to ctr-f "CO2")

Protective Randomness: Why We Fear the AI Unknown and What to Do About It — Suffolk LIT Lab

Why people resist the change promised/threatened by AI and what one can do to prepare for the unknown.

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