Post № 63 - The Hidden Environmental Costs of Chat GPTs: A Conversation with Bing Copilot

Emerging research indicates vast amounts of energy and water are being consumed by the data centres powering these large language models. However, discussions around these concerns are often obscured by the ongoing promotion of AI as a progressive too – especially when related to human ingenuity and originality. It seems an opportune time to ask one of these language models, in this case Bing Copilot, powered by GPT-4, about its own perceived environmental impact.

However, in recognition that a singular query contributes approximately 4.32g of CO₂, compared to Google queries which generate approximately 0.2g of CO₂, these questions were kept to a fair minimum.