Andy Masley

A lot of people will say they don't believe my numbers on individual AI prompts not being bad. You can use this collection of estimates from outside experts and just see for yourself how many times you'd have to send each prompt to raise your carbon footprint by 1%. huggingfac…

EcoLogits Calculator - a Hugging Face Space by genai-impact huggingface.co

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What does your chatbot use actually cost? andymasley.com

I think I figured out exactly how the “AI used a bottle of water per prompt” miscalculation happened open.substack.com/pub/andymasl...

I think I figured out exactly how the “AI used a bottle of water per prompt” miscalculation happened blog.andymasley.com

Just posted the first of a few posts on what I see as the history of the data center panic, this first one is on what was happening pre-ChatGPT blog.andymasley.com/p/a-history-...

A history of the data center panic - part 1 blog.andymasley.com

Wow this farmer has a message for AI companies who want to buy his land

I've had a very nice back-and-forth email exchange with Shaolei Ren, who provided the original "AI uses a bottle of water per prompt" estimate with the Washington Post. (1/5)

TIL that everyone calling me a paid shill for defending AI water use is actually secretly funded by effective altruists. Nice try EAs but I'm onto you

There's a funny inconsistency in what people believe about how much energy AI uses: "AI uses 10x as much energy as a Google search" ✅ "10 Google searches use as much energy as a few seconds of Netflix" ✅ "AI prompts use as much energy as a few seconds of Netflix" ❌ Must be a lie, must be a shill

Gonna plant a flag that I believe AI will be the main political issue in the 2028 race

It's definitely looking like an AI bubble (a bubble of AI agents expanding at near light speed in all directions from the dyson swarm formerly known as Earth)

To be clear I’m very happy we have an AI safety pope

I took EcoLogits' numbers and made an interactive visual where you can compare chatbots at different sizes and outputs to your day to day life. You can show people these comparisons and not ask them to trust me at all. EcoLogits is open source and much more critical of AI than I am

Look I gotta say if you were in DC in 2022 and someone said “I think it’s possible that in 4 years LLMs could be so powerful that the President will ban a general chatbot because of the threat of adversaries using it” there was a high chance they knew me personally

The EA network has I think done a great job of calling out and pushing out anyone calling for violence. It is to put it mildly infuriating to see AI labs now funding orgs organizing sock accounts to pretend to be AI safety people calling for violence making it look like us.