New Yorker recently. This idea will never die.
Andy Masley launches an online calculator estimating the carbon and water footprint of GPT, Claude, and Gemini prompts
It compares AI resource consumption to common lifestyle activities.
Positive users praised the New Yorker cartoon joking about AI water consumption for its humor, while negative users called it embarrassing or libelous.
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@AndyMasley It’s a good parenting joke though
To see how much water your AI prompts actually use you can use this tool which compares the best current expert estimates to your total water footprint https://www.andymasley.com/visuals/ai-prompt-footprint/
New Yorker recently. This idea will never die.

@AndyMasley Someone fixed it, can’t find where I saw it originally (on here)

@AndyMasley But this lil goober…

@smkmnstr @AndyMasley I live in a state that has plenty of cows and pigs. We didn’t have water rationing until the Data centers started moving in. Now we do.

@AndyMasley The water libel never ends

@AndyMasley The idea survives because every generation discovers the same thing in a new costume: the tool changes, but the fear is always that someone else will think faster, make faster, or learn faster. AI is only the latest mirror.

@AndyMasley depends on the data center, and the municipality!
https://youtu.be/eXXwN_TDdLU

@mattyglesias @AndyMasley Your children will only ever want water in two circumstances: 1) When you desperately need them to be in bed 2) When you buckle them into a car for a 30-minute drive.

@AndyMasley “A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth gets its pants on”

@AndyMasley priceless.

@AndyMasley people keep saying "now with ai you can't believe anything you read anymore!!!" first time?

@smkmnstr @AndyMasley I'll assume you don't drink milk nor consume meat, but if you then you shouldn't and you must start eating... prompts?
@AndyMasley It is like an anti-shibboleth - when someone uses it it shows that he does not care about facts.

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@smkmnstr @AndyMasley Well, we dont actually need generative ai and its data centres. Also, this planet is as much theirs(other animals) as it is ours(humans)

@smkmnstr @AndyMasley 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Go vegan ! AI uses 0.5% of what the meat industry does

@AndyMasley Hint: AIs don't require data centers to run. Total surveillance and social credit systems do.

@AndyMasley Responses from AI queries should have a logged glass of water cost in honor of this to assign to users so you can calculate their water debt to society instead of putting it into the pretend money system because water is real.

@AndyMasley It's kind of funny that when we worry so much about AI generated misinformation, it's misinformation *about* AI which has run away to the races and affected so many people.
