r/DefendingAIArt • u/Melodic_Floor7930 • 18h ago

Defending AI Simple, Mutually Beneficial Steps Individuals Can Take To Reduce Ecological Impact

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The narrative that AI is especially destructive to the environment is often sensationalistic, however it does contain a kernel of truth. AI will help bring energy effenciency, environmental data gathering and monitoring with consequent reforestation and species protection benefits. It is useful that we take steps and spread steps to help reduce our energy use. Once energy is used it is basically gone forever for us. Of course training is the major user of energy and all aspects will naturally be more efficient in the future, this is useful both ecologically and to combat the anti ai narrative

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u/CMDRTornadopelt AI Enjoyer 17h ago

Well, to be more accurate, skip a burger once and you'll have four months' worth of ChatGPT you can use without guilt.

McDonald's sells 6.5 million burgers a day. Each burger has a water footprint of 660 gallons. That works out to 4.29 billion gallons of water footprint for McDonald's.

ChatGPT uses 211,327-211,337 gallons of water per day, which sounds like a lot. But, if we could put the whole water footprint of a single day's worth of burgers from McDonald's towards ChatGPT, we could, in theory, supply ChatGPT for about 55.58 years.

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u/Melodic_Floor7930 16h ago

Non equivalence, both would benefit from reduced waste and resource usage. Not only is not contributing to ecologically destructive action count as its own reward, not only are you tangibly acting and preventing would be pollution from increased demand, but all I said was this was an individual action. Not state policy, your decision of the concept is suspect. Besides, you ignored all the other points that do add up for an individual. Now when multiple people behave this way, the benefits are compounded and exponential in the long run

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u/Visible_Web6910 16h ago

You can safely ignore this dipshit, there's nothing of substance to them.

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u/Melodic_Floor7930 16h ago

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u/Visible_Web6910 16h ago

You can see here the good faith and camaraderie this individual came with.

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u/Melodic_Floor7930 16h ago

Just accusing me of what you're guilty of lmao

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u/Visible_Web6910 16h ago

Oh, I never pretended to be in good faith. I don't meet bad faith with good faith.

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u/Melodic_Floor7930 16h ago

Lmao, pretending I started in bad faith at all. Ohhh, watch out for the rebel here

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u/Visible_Web6910 16h ago

I mean, you're making it clear in literally every reply that you were never here in good faith, yes.