#environmentalimpactanalysis — Public Fediverse posts

A study published in Scientific Reports in 2024 claims that "AI systems emit between 130 and 1500 times less CO2e per page of text generated compared to human writers, while AI illustration systems emit between 310 and 2900 times less CO2e per image than their human counterparts." 👀

Huge if true.

Here's the kicker: "For the human writing process, we looked at humans’ total annual carbon footprints, and then took a subset of that annual footprint based on how much time they spent writing." 🤔

Of course, writing contributes to carbon footprints in the same way as all other human activities like *checks notes* heavy industry, transport, agriculture, and energy and heating. /s 🙄

Last author Andrew W. Torrance declares holding shares in NVIDIA. 🤦

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-54271-x

All credit for these insights goes to Higher Ed discussions of AI writing & use https://facebook.com/groups/632930835501841/

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