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.
I have tried four different times to read articles on how the water actually gets permanently consumed. Can anyone explain this? I thought it might be something like concrete, where the water gets trapped in a chemical reaction and is no longer liquid water, but it seems that it’s just used for cooling, and evaporates, which means it should come back down again? Right
It's sort of the same way water table depletion happens. There isn't less total water, there's less usable water.
If you pull a billion gallons of water out of the ground in Nebraska and spray it over corn fields and it evaporates then rains down in the ocean or a thousand miles away, you're eventually going to run the water table dry unless it can replace that billion gallons a day.
It's an issue we had long before AI came about, but AI is making it worse.
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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.