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Making an image with generative AI uses as much energy as charging your phone | MIT Technology Review

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This is the first time the carbon emissions caused by using an AI model for different tasks have been calculated.

Making an image with generative AI uses as much energy as charging your phone | MIT Technology Review Skip to Content Each time you use AI to generate an image, write an email, or ask a chatbot a question, it comes at a cost to the planet. In fact, generating an image using a powerful AI model takes as much energy as fully charging your smartphone, according to a new study by researchers at the AI startup Hugging Face and Carnegie Mellon University. However, they found that using an AI model to generate text is significantly less energy-intensive. Creating text 1,000 times only uses as much en

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