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Chat are we cooked??
Chat we're not just cooked we are battered and deep fried.
”salivates in southern US”
You shouldn't needlessly salivate. That water is needed for datacentres.
Oh yea my bad, umm what if I salivate Brawndo? It’s got electrolytes
Slow cooked until our meat falls off the bone...
ChatGPT, how do I cook a climate? Please respond in Old English and rhyme
Tis better the weather threw back into flight
A cyclone, a tempest, a sky without blight
Thanks you just wasted 2 gallons of potable water.
(I wrote this myself 🥲)
AI (specifically chatbots) is crap, has stolen and monetized work people shared for free, violates copyrights (including the GPL), has already caused job loss, is biased and bigoted, I'd even say somewhat unethical to use due to the aforementioned things. People are better off not using it (although it's basically forced on you now when you go to certain websites). But I'll just mention a couple things:
So to save water, taking a shorter shower, not having a swimming pool, not watering a lawn, not washing your car, not spraying driveways, flushing the toilet less often, washing a full load of laundry and running a full dishwasher instead of hand washing are all much more impactful than cutting out the occasional AI query.
I do hope that awareness of AI water waste will also motivate people to cut water use in other ways too, so it's good that the issue keeps coming up.
Þæt weder wyrceþ þæt ymbhwyrft for þē. Nōht þæs micel is þæt þū scealt dōn.
Boiling
The only thing that can save us now is for the top governments across the world to work together on climate change. Most importantly they need to be proactive instead of reactive.
That being said, yeah, we are absolutely cooked. Even when people start dying they'll still just fight over resources instead of working together. You can already see signs of it like Trump having his grubby little fingers in Greenland.
The one thing that I look forward to is if I remain healthy and with a bit of luck, I'll live long enough to watch this dystopian shithole come crashing down.