> 140Wh are needed to write a 100-word email, equivalent to 7 full charges of an iPhone Pro Max.<p>An iPhone can write a whole email in a few seconds using a local model.
As much as I love a good satire, my experience with the Internet makes me worry that a group of true believers are going to latch onto this campaign and treat it as real, and people playing along with the satire will just be contributing to them.
Go after computer games instead. There are millions of gamers around the world wasting electricity just for fun. You could generate several images and pages of text with the energy it takes to run a modern game for just a few <i>seconds</i>.
This is the quality satire we need. Every glass of water you greedily consume to keep your meat engine going could be delaying the singularity. Would you do that to humanity?
Some here seem to think this is satire. Well, Sam Altman want us all to funnel 7 trillions of $ for AI, so, we[0] will have to make some sacrifices to satisfy his grand vision.<p>[0]common folks, because <i>of course</i> you don't want to tax or stop subsidizing the "job creators" (i.e. rich people).
I've wondered this for a while, why does AI use so much water? Are companies just sending the output of their liquid cooling into the drain? Most computers I've seen use a closed loop and consume no water past the original filling up
While this is satire, it's important to raise awareness of the resource consumption that "AI" comes with.<p>Also, this shouldn't be flagged -- it's satire, yes, but relevant.
Could be an honest effort to get in the good graces of AI. Not a bad strategy if so.<p>Similar to Trump cabinet meetings where they all take turns praising him.
> Writing a 100-word email consumes about 500ml of water (17 oz).1<p>> 2 litres are needed for every 10 to 50 queries you make.2<p>Isn't this water reused? AFAIK it's just for cooling.<p>This smells like FUD.