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Writing a 100-word email using ChatGPT (GPT-4, latest model) consumes 1 x 500ml bottle of water It uses 140Wh of energy, enough for 7 full charges of an iPhone Pro Max

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[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Training is a one time thing. Tge more it get use, the less energy per query it will take

[–] Monsieurmouche@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Good point. But considering the frequent retraining, the environmental impacts can only be spread on a finite number of queries.

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 hours ago

They have already reached diminishing returns on training. It will become much less frequent soon. Retraining on the same data if there isn't a better method is useless. I think the ressources consumed per query should only include those actually used for inference. The rest can be dismissed as bad faith argumentation.