I’m getting so fucking tired of seeing people bring up environmental impact as a reason why people should stop using AI. And it’s because the majority of people who say it genuinely don’t care about the environment, they just want to shit on people who use AI.
And I know they don’t care because they’ll willingly cause just as much, if not more, harm through their consumption, meat and animal products, for the same reasons they’ll shame people who use ai for;
- Convenience (like people who don’t want to draw and use ai instead).
- Price (like people who can but don’t want to pay for commissions and use ai instead)(even though most plant-based foods are cheap to begin with).
- Laziness (like people who don’t want to learn how to make something so they use ai instead).
And it’s not just ignorance. The vast majority of them eat meat and animal products by choice while knowing it’s bad for the environment. How much they know depends on the individual, but they know. Animal Ag’s impact isn’t some hidden secret.
Here’s a breakdown of what I mean.
- It’s estimated that ChatGPT uses 16oz, about as much as an average sized bottle, of water for every 5-50 questions.
- It’s also estimated that it takes at least 630 gallons of water for a single meat-based hamburger, the highest estimate is over a thousand. Meanwhile an average soy-based burger is estimated to be about 42 gallons.
1 gallon of water is 128oz, or 8 bottles of water.
So, water-wise, a single hamburger is worth at least 3,150 questions, and at most 31,500.
So who’s exactly killing the environment with their consumption?
