Simon WillisonOct 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?

Show threadtrindfloOct 18, 2024
@simon if you would like to see such a comparison, why not rephrase your request as a prompt and feed it to some of your favorite LLMs?
Show threadSimon Willison
@trindflo I already did exactly that - didn't even rephrase it, just pasted it in
Oct 18, 2024 at 11:01pmWeb
Show threadSimon WillisonOct 18, 2024

@trindflo here's what I got from ChatGPT, problem is I don't trust ANY of the numbers because the underlying information on how much energy an individual prompt uses is effectively unavailable

Throwing in "What are some ethical and philosophical framework I could use to help explore this question?" did bring up some interesting leads though

https://chatgpt.com/share/6712f5dd-9bdc-8006-9a0a-f352ccb5b7f3

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