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The 2025 version of "Please consider this environment before printing this email" should be "Please consider this environment before using A.I. to respond to this email" (lemmy.world)
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In the late 2000s there was a push by a lot of businesses to not print emails and people use to add a 'Please consider this environment before printing this email.'

Considering how bad LLMs/'ai' are with power consumption and water usage a new useless tag email footer should be made.

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[-] a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

you got an error in magnitude there: its 5.32*10¹⁴ requests, so 532 407 407 407 407 requests

(2.3 × billion tonnes)/(4.32 grams) 2.3 billion tonnes = 2.3 trillion kilos = 2.3 quadrillion grams ≈ 532 407 000 000 000 requests needed for equivalence to Covid CO2 drop ≈ 912 500 000 000 requests made per year calculator output below:

912 500 000 000/532 407 407 407 407
≈ 0.001 7%
(2.5 × billion) × 365
= 912 500 000 000
(2.3 × billion tonnes)/(4.32 grams)
≈ 532 407 407 407 407

See what i mean? Stop ChatGPT, achieve 0,0017% of the reduction that Covid brought.

this post was submitted on 06 Aug 2025
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