A lot of people will say they don't believe my numbers on individual AI prompts not being bad. You can use this collection of estimates from outside experts and just see for yourself how many times you'd have to send each prompt to raise your carbon footprint by 1%. https://huggingface.co/spaces/genai-impact/ecologits-calculator
The average American emits about 40,000g per day, so 1% is going to require 400g of carbon, or 0.4 kg.
A lot of people often ask me where I get my numbers when I claim that chatbot use doesn't add much to your personal carbon or water footprint, or bring up that different models and outputs have wildly different costs. I made this interactive visual where you can see exactly how lots of different models and prompts affect your total carbon and water budget. All estimates pulled from EcoLogits, which is an open source project that estimates chatbot usage and if anything is much more critical of chatbot energy costs than I am.
https://www.andymasley.com/visuals/ai-prompt-footprint/
A lot of people often ask me where I get my numbers when I claim that chatbot use doesn't add much to your personal carbon or water footprint, or bring up that different models and outputs have wildly different costs. I made this interactive visual where you can see exactly how lots of different models and prompts affect your total carbon and water budget. All estimates pulled from EcoLogits, which is an open source project that estimates chatbot usage and if anything is much more critical of chatbot energy costs than I am.
If you're part of a social group or org that hates my guts, I've also included full permission for you to copy everything here without crediting me to your own website. We gotta make this craziness stop.
A lot of people often ask me where I get my numbers when I claim that chatbot use doesn't add much to your personal carbon or water footprint, or bring up that different models and outputs have wildly different costs. I made this interactive visual where you can see exactly how lots of different models and prompts affect your total carbon and water budget. All estimates pulled from EcoLogits, which is an open source project that estimates chatbot usage and if anything is much more critical of chatbot energy costs than I am.
Basically you don't need to trust anything I'm saying here. Every single number is cited.
https://www.andymasley.com/visuals/ai-prompt-footprint/
A lot of people will say they don't believe my numbers on individual AI prompts not being bad. You can use this collection of estimates from outside experts and just see for yourself how many times you'd have to send each prompt to raise your carbon footprint by 1%. https://huggingface.co/spaces/genai-impact/ecologits-calculator
The average American emits about 40,000g per day, so 1% is going to require 400g of carbon, or 0.4 kg.