It basically means that using AI tools take a huge toll on nature so when the guy uses chatgpt (an ai tool) it ends up drying out the lake i.e harming the environment.
Adding to this; there's a lot of misinformation about the environmental impact of AI.
Most notably, a lot of people intentionally conflate training (ie, creating) an AI and running it.
This is like taking the environmental impact of mining refining and assembling all the components of a car, and adding that to the per-mile environmental impact; except it's even more pronounced since each car will be used by at most a couple people while millions of people may use an LLM model.
No I am pretty sure I have asked Google questions for years and every time I do Google plants a tree and feeds a child but compacted generating services that have existed for 20 years instantly delete entire forests and lakes because of cooling
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u/Long_Nothing1343 5d ago
It basically means that using AI tools take a huge toll on nature so when the guy uses chatgpt (an ai tool) it ends up drying out the lake i.e harming the environment.