r/Anticonsumption • u/Sad_Butterscotch7063 • 2d ago

Discussion Does anyone avoid using ChatGPT because of its water usage?

Hey, I recently came across something about how using ChatGPT, Blackbox AI and similar AI tools actually consumes a surprising amount of water (cooling data centers, I guess). Made me wonder, have people here stopped or reduced using it because of that?

Curious how others are thinking about it in terms of sustainability and personal impact.

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u/medusssa3 2d ago

It's not even a search engine, it gives you false results a huge percent of the time. It's literally a lies and bullshit machine

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u/Runthescript 2d ago

Thats a hot take, which i don't entirely disagree. I run models on ollama locally and find some uses. But certainly not what these companies are claiming. Remember when there was all this talk about how these LLMs would be telling the prompters crazy shit like planning to take over the world or allegedly doing tasks on its own, or hiding processes like some sci-fi rogue ai. With so many running them locally now, you don't see these claims as much anymore. Why? Because for those of us who took a look under the hood, we realized that simply is bogus claims.

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u/Ringbearer31 2d ago

Idk, making little windows executables just for me with little effort is pretty nice.