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'They’re just hiding the critical information': Google says its Gemini AI sips a mere 'five drops' of water per text prompt, but experts disagree with its findings
'This really spreads the wrong message to the world.'
Speaking to The Verge, Shaolei Ren, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California and one of the authors named in the study, said: "They're just hiding the critical information. While Google has not released any assessments of these impacts, Mistral, a French AI startup, has previously reported that training its Large 2 model and consumed 281,000 cubic meters of water, equivalent to around 112 Olympic-sized swimming pools. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman claimed earlier this year that a typical ChatGPT query uses one 15th of a teaspoon of water, which does seem like a relatively insignificant amount, even when you multiply it at scale to account for billions of potential prompts.
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