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Using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment

And a plea to think seriously about climate change without getting distracted

I’m not usually interested in writing simple debunking posts, but I regularly talk and read about the debate around emissions associated with AI and it’s completely clear to me that one side is getting it entirely wrong and spreading misleading ideas. After years of progress in addressing systemic issues over personal lifestyle changes, it’s as if everyone suddenly started obsessing over whether the digital clocks in our bedrooms use too much energy and began condemning them as a major problem. If climate change is an emergency that requires lots of people working collectively to fix in limited time, we cannot afford to get distracted by focusing too much of our effort and thinking on extremely small levels of emissions.

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