"#ChatGPT needs to 'drink' [the equivalent of] a 500 ml bottle of #water for a simple conversation of roughly 20-50 questions and answers," the paper notes. "While a 500ml bottle of water might not seem too much, the total combined #water footprint for inference is still extremely large, considering ChatGPT’s billions of users."
@karabaic I think this is bollocks. First, what an odd thing to measure - definitelly sounds sensationalist. Second, cooling usually is implemented as a closed cycle, or should be if you care about conserving coolant.
@extrn it’s not a closed cycle for many power plants.
@extrn Yep, it is a rhetorical technique, to provide the reader the feeling for the use of a precious resource. You would have a stronger case on your side if the water they used wasn’t potable.