Note To Ao3 Users

Note to Ao3 users

If you no longer want to be associated with/acknowledge the existence of something you have posted, please, for the love of your fandom community, use "Orphan Work" instead of deleting it or shoving it in a locked/unrevealed collection. Then people who liked it, have bookmarked it, etc., will still be able to read or see it without seeing your name attached.

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Y'all I know that when so-called AI generates ridiculous results it's hilarious and I find it as funny as the next guy but I NEED y'all to remember that every single time an AI answer is generated it uses 5x as much energy as a conventional websearch and burns through 10 ml of water. FOR EVERY ANSWER. Each big llm is equal to 300,000 kiligrams of carbon dioxide emissions.

LLMs are killing the environment, and when we generate answers for the lolz we're still contributing to it.

Stop using it. Stop using it for a.n.y.t.h.i.n.g. We need to kill it.

Sources:

The Conversation

AI’s excessive water consumption threatens to drown out its environmental contributions

Artificial intelligence promises revolutionary solutions to global challenges, but the water costs to produce and power AI hardware and infr

Nature

The carbon impact of artificial intelligence - Nature Machine Intelligence

The part that artificial intelligence plays in climate change has come under scrutiny, including from tech workers themselves who joined the

nature.com

Generative AI’s environmental costs are soaring — and mostly secret

First-of-its-kind US bill would address the environmental costs of the technology, but there’s a long way to go.

What if William was training Porter to be Vincent's dagger and was so sad that they didn't get along?

the age-old question: "is my beloved mutual in a totally different time zone to me or do they just have a terrible sleep schedule"