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I’ll stop using ChatGPT when private jets are banned, families drop down to one car and stop having more than two kids. Seriously there are probably more emissions from a few supertankers/cargo carriers than all LLMs combined.

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No one is asking people to stop using the Internet. However, becoming aware of one’s consumption is important, and as of now, people are generally oblivious to their digital footprint beyond power consumption, which is only one of the aspects.

Of course they are. We continuously hear that we have to stop having cars, kids, and consuming in a way that the elites have described as irresponsible, all whilst they travel the world in private jets where they definitely do not eat tofu.

I guess you should just walk outside a bit.

it made me look. a private jet emits 4,900 g of c02 per mile (how the author's mind didn't explode mixing the measurement systems is beyond me) vs 1 prompt emitting 1.14 g.

https://flybitlux.com/what-is-the-carbon-footprint-of-a-priv...

Honestly not as dramatic as I’d have hoped. 5000 chatgpt prompts propelling a jet for a mile is a pretty surprising amount of energy useage.

Yeah, but it's multiple million per flight

Yeah but chatgpt has like a hundred million users right?

I fail to see a point in this comment. We are comparing 100 million users to a single jet flight. If you believe that a flight is more important that a few million conversations for anyone, sure I can see how you can be concerned.

Most private jet flights are more than one mile in length and there are many thousands of them per day. There’s no where you can go (effectively) that you can’t get to with a major airline.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/carbon-pollution-from-h...

WTF, the level of .... in this phrase is astonishing IMO, specially when you said the kids "issue". Seriously WTF

> WTF, the level of .... in this phrase is astonishing IMO, specially when you said the kids "issue". Seriously WTF

What?

3 if you raise them vegan!

Let’s talk about fewer kids after people stop owning pets.

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