Comment by simonw

Comment by simonw 17 hours ago

I see people complaining that ChatGPT usage is unethical for environmental reasons all the time. Here's just the first example I found from a Bluesky search (this one focuses on water usage): https://bsky.app/profile/theferocity.bsky.social/post/3lfckq...

"the famous case where a single ChatGPT query resulted in thousands of HTTP requests"

Can you provide more information about that? I don't remember gearing about that one - was it a case of someone using ChatGPT to write code and not reviewing the result?

strogonoff 17 hours ago

> Can you provide more information about that?

Sure, I looked it up and it was a security advisory: https://github.com/bf/security-advisories/blob/main/2025-01-...

I don’t have the time to re-read it now so if I am misremembering and it is a training-time effect rather than query-time effect then my bad, though the point largely stands.

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jazzyjackson 16 hours ago

Bluesky is a special place, I am not surprised you will bump into the sort of activists who will critique every bucket of water that go into making a hamburger there. For those of us who avoid contact with the axe grinding hoards of short form media, meeting somebody who spends any portion of their day fretting about the water usage of language models is indeed a rarity.

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JimDabell 15 hours ago

It’s not specific to Bluesky. I’ve seen it on Threads, X, Facebook, and Reddit. It’s a talking point for people who hate AI and they tell anybody who will listen.

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