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Author: Matt Obrien, Hannah Fingerhut
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Year: 2023
Summary: This article discusses how ChatGPT’s humble origins in Iowa lead to the immense harm the technology can cause. It highlights how, from 2021 to 2022, Microsoft’s global water consumption was 1.7 billion gallons as more AI was being integrated. This will only continue to increase as preliminary findings of recent research have shown that ChatGPT requires 500 mL of water for every 5-50 prompts. This means that as few as eight prompts could consume over a gallon of water. Building, maintaining, and utilizing the technology needed for ChatGPT to run will cost monumental amounts of water.