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AI's Carbon Footprint is Bigger Than You Think

Generating one image takes as much energy as fully charging your smartphone.

Generating one image takes as much energy as fully charging your smartphone, according to the study from researchers at the AI startup Hugging Face and Carnegie Mellon University. A high school’s deepfake porn scandal is pushing US lawmakers into action Legislators are responding quickly after teens used AI to create nonconsensual sexually explicit images. This great investigation shows just how much college students are being subjected to increasing amounts of surveillance tech, including homework trackers, test-taking software, and even license plate readers.

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