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Unpopular opinion: I hate AI and I think its going to consume all of our water sources. It already has begun and one AI search consumes 2-3 8 oz glasses of water. We were going to run out of clean drinking water in 2036… Now thats shortened even more…
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Anonymous 4w

lowkey dont think that opinion is unpopular, but i also dont think it's very convincing just giving the amount of water usage with nothing else to scale it to, so im gonna give some examples

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 4w

training gpt-3 microsoft used ~185,000 liters of water. you could fill a nuclear reactors cooling tower with that much, produce 370 bmws, or produce 320 teslas. however, bmw itself admits that just one of their plants in Spartanburg, SC produces over 1500 vehicles daily

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 4w

it takes a significant amount of water to produce beef too, the cattle industry is a huge water waste with one pound of beef needing almost 7000 liters. if we assume a standard 4 ounce burger size, it takes a little under 2000 chatgpt queries to use the water needed for one hamburger

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 4w

(the cattle one is using the 500 mL stat per chatgpt answer btw, i do think altman is a digusting conman for trying to significantly downplay how much water is actually used. i believe in honesty, i just think we should also consider scale)

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 4w

meta used 22,000,000 liters training one of its models (dont remember which one but if some1 wants to know ill look it up) and that same water usage equates to the production of 4439 lbs of rice, about as much as 160 ish americans eat in a year

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 4w

okay one more sorry for spamming your commments. if 10 millions used chatgpt to write a weekly email for a year, it uses as much water as rhode island does in a day and a half. hope this gives ppl some perspective. also want to be clear im not saying that we're wasting water on food (beef and rice), although we definitely do overproduce beef and cattle food products in the us and it's a glaring environmental problem outside of water usage, im moreso trying to give an idea of the opportunity cost

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