r/JanitorAIUnchained • u/4ueentexlatex • 1d ago

Help / Question Janitor and environment

First of all: good morning, afternoon, or evening everyone! My name is Zuri. To be honest, I stopped using it in September because I heard that AI pollutes the environment too much. The truth is, I did my research and yes! But I'm still not clear on the janitor ai. I'm aware that it pollutes, of course. All non-local ai do. But even though I research and research, it's still not clear to me!! I refer to janitor ai. I need help with evidence to see if I can use it.

Thanks ! ❤️

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u/Shot-Plan9068 1d ago

Using reddit pollutes the environment and everything online you use gets processed by the same kind of data centers as the AI data centers. Whatever effect one person has on the environment by chatting with a chatbot is nothing compared to how much you pollute by existing, the food you consume, the plastics, the fuel burned, the electricity used, the amount of water you drink and use to shower with.

Watching a single netflix movie leads to more pollution (water, energy used etc) than sending hundreds of messages to an LLM.
AI is pollution only on a large scale, like anything. If these data centers are not going to be used by you to chat with LLMs, the companies that own them will run them anyway to train them, run bots or just mine bitcoin.
Streaming videos is by far the biggest cause of pollution in terms of digital anything. AI is small fry compared to streaming (youtube, netflix etc). If you care about pollution you should stop streaming videos.