One of your tags says “defending ai art” even though your meme says what the carbon emissions are for a typical AI text query rather than an image query.
CO₂ is not a pollutant. Higher than present CO₂ levels likely contributed to abundant pre-Flood vegetation.
Probably most of the recent climate change has been been due to natural climate variation.
AI has non-CO₂ related environmental issues like fresh water usage.
The 3 minutes of thinking carbon emission figure is within the range of the heavy “reasoning” AI carbon emission figure.
Your brain only uses about 5% more power when you are thinking hard than when you are idle and awake.
How many minutes of thinking does a typical AI query automate?
