Does anyone avoid using ChatGPT because of its water usage?

[u/Sad_Butterscotch7063]

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.

[u/Designer_Pen869]

It bothers me that they automatically have AI answered questions at the top. I tried to check the sources for it one time, since it appeared to have the answer I was looking for, that I couldn't find. It linked to Reddit. Another source was for something completely different that just had two of the same main keywords.

[u/AcanthaceaePlayful16 → u/Designer_Pen869]

You can add -ai to your search and it will remove the ai answers.

[u/Designer_Pen869 → u/AcanthaceaePlayful16]

That is useful to know. It shouldn't be on by default, especially with as inaccurate as it is.

[u/AcanthaceaePlayful16 → u/Designer_Pen869]

Very much agree. I hate it so much.

[u/akkristor → u/AcanthaceaePlayful16]

You can also add expletives to your search as well.

[u/yet_another_dumbass → u/akkristor]

This I'd what I usually tell people about. But knowing the -ai tip makes it friendlier to spread.

[u/HallowskulledHorror → u/akkristor]

yep, I've starting adding 'fuck' to the end of queries for this purpose

[u/BarrelFullOfWeasels → u/HallowskulledHorror]

Doesn't that give you, um, interesting results?

Imagining a search history like... 

Cute animals fuck

Green Bay Packers fuck

Congressional district 4 candidates fuck

Plumbers near me fuck

[u/HallowskulledHorror → u/BarrelFullOfWeasels]

lol damn works out well enough anytime I think there might be an interaction

[u/BarrelFullOfWeasels → u/HallowskulledHorror]

That's good, glad you haven't been totally Rule 34'd haha

[u/_growing → u/AcanthaceaePlayful16]

I didn't know that, thanks

[u/OhighOent → u/Designer_Pen869]

I don't need the random unverified gibberish that it outputs. You simply can't trust it.

[u/pandaSmore → u/Designer_Pen869]

Use SearX, Startpage, DDG, Brave Search, Kagi, Ecosia, etc.

[u/Absent-Light-12 → u/Designer_Pen869]

From my experience, it also seems to be used a propaganda-machine in that it states that only citizens are entitled to the protections allotted through the US constitution when looking up amendments.

[u/Troll_Enthusiast → u/Designer_Pen869]

DuckDuckGo Ai works pretty well