AI, but at What Cost? Breakdown of AI's Carbon Footprint

Re:AI, but at What Cost? Breakdown of AI's Carbon Footprint by bumby on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @08:50AM (#42852257)

Help me understand. The article claims 20MM users with an average of 24 prompts per day. Do we have any information on the average number of prompts per user? I suspect it would follow a Pareto distribution, with a small subset consuming much much more, but no clue as to where that average assumption holds.

Edit: a quick search points to 5-10 prompts per session but we’d still need to know the average number of sessions

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Re:AI, but at What Cost? Breakdown of AI's Carbon Footprint by datadrivenangel on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @09:28AM (#42852673)

In December I did 61 images, and in November I did 121, according to Replicate's billing. Probably more like 10-20 images per session, which for me are usually 1-2 times per week?

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Re:AI, but at What Cost? Breakdown of AI's Carbon Footprint by visarga on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @09:28AM (#42852661)

Yes, I searched this too. There probably are many single round sessions, but the average length is 8-12 messages.

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