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- You may have heard that having a conversation with ChatGPT is the climate equivalent of pouring out a bottle of water. In fact, that is likely an underestimate. In the 3rd installment in our series on the climate costs of AI, we tackle AI’s unquenchable thirst. www.youtube.com/watch?v=s67L...
- The bottled water estimates are from a 2023 study from UC-Riverside. But the real numbers are likely much worse. They studied older, smaller AI models running in big tech owned data centers. Today AI is bigger and often hosted in less efficient 3rd party data centers. arxiv.org/pdf/2304.03271
- You can see the rising water usage of AI in the numbers. In 2022 Microsoft water consumption rose 34% and Google’s rose 22%. In 2023 Microsoft’s entire operations, including all data centers, consumed enough water to fill 15.6 billion water bottles.
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View full threadAs reporter @agordon.me says, “Next time you have a conversation with a chatbot programmed to sound like a movie star, you can think not only about the bottle of water evaporating into the air but all the climate promises that are now in jeopardy.” www.proofnews.org/ais-unquench...
- What is the carbon cost of using an AI bot? The companies stopped disclosing it in 2022. In the latest installment in our series on the climate costs of AI, we estimate a year of ChatGPT use may emit the same amount of CO2 as driving 2 million miles. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yekA...
- Our educated guess of the CO2 costs of AI is definitely an underestimate - it is based on pioneering 2022 research by @sashamtl.bsky.social @sylvainviguier.bsky.social & Anne-Laure Ligozat. The real cost of newer, bigger AI models is likely much higher. arxiv.org/pdf/2211.02001
- As @agordon.me writes: “Tech companies seem to be treating the climate impact of AI like they’re shopping in a store that has no price tags with a credit card in someone else’s name. And they’re not showing us the receipts.” www.proofnews.org/ais-carbon-f...
- Since 2017, electricity consumption at the biggest AI makers has soared: 186% at Google 186% at Microsoft 367% at Meta The reason: AI. @agordon.me examines the electrical costs of AI in the first episode of our YouTube series on the climate impacts of AI. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFd0...
- AI makers are trying to replace their fossil fuel usage with green energy. Amazon, Meta and Google were 3 of the top 4 corporate buyers of clean energy purchase agreements in 2023, and all have invested in nuclear power. But their electricity use is soaring faster than they can add green energy.
- A smaller share of Google’s data center electricity is powered by clean energy now than in 2020. The other AI companies don’t disclose clean energy ratios, but they are likely to be similar. “In a lot of ways, they are going backwards.” – @agordon.me www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFd0...
- We believe that news should come with an ingredients label – so here is our label for this episode: www.proofnews.org/ais-power-gr...
- We are thrilled to announce that Proof News is joining Nebula – the independent creator-led video streaming platform. Our video investigations will appear on Nebula as well as on the corporate-owned platforms. Indie newsroom + indie platform = stronger together! nebula.tv/proofnews
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- "In the world of AI and misinformation and propaganda circulating online, we must make it very clear why our audiences should trust our piece of information versus another piece,” @juliaangwin.com tells Editor & Publisher. www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/proo...
- In our latest AI testing, the leading chatbots were pretty decent at detecting and debunking known vote count misinformation. With one notable – and surprising – exception: ChatGPT.
- AI models are fluent in many languages - holding out the promise of helping break language barriers. But our latest investigation reveals that the models return a higher rate of inaccurate answers to questions posed in Spanish than identical questions posed in English.
- Honored to have collaborated on this investigation with Factchequeado and @alondra.bsky.social
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- AI Models are producing inaccurate information about voting options for people with disabilities more than 60% of the time, according to a new study using Proof’s AI testing platform. www.proofnews.org/ai-models-pr...
- Top AI models generated misleading info about Kamala Harris and Donald Trump 30% of the time. From incorrect answers about eligibility to false claims about Medicare cuts, find out how these technologies fail us. www.proofnews.org/ai-models-st...
- Internal communications show Nvidia raced to build a competitor to OpenAI’s Sora, and concerned employees in the process by resorting to downloading masses of copyrighted YouTube videos. www.proofnews.org/nvidia-scrap...
- How accurately do leading AI models respond to questions about Black history? @MrCrim3 gives them a "C." www.proofnews.org/tiktok-teach...
- How good is AI at accurately answering questions about Black history? “I would give them probably a C,” Black history educator Ernest Crim told us after using our AI testing software to investigate the leading AI models performance.The latest in our Proof Ingredients series. youtu.be/DVRcfNBNKtY?...
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- Reporter Annie Gilbertson talks with @juliaangwin.com about her groundbreaking investigation into AI’s use of YouTube content without the consent of creators. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZkO...
- Our latest investigation reveals a dataset of more than 170,000 YouTube video subtitles that big tech companies used to train their AI models. “Will this be used to exploit and harm artists? Yes, absolutely,” says @dwisk.us www.proofnews.org/apple-nvidia...
- Several companies have made it easy to impersonate voices using AI tools, with little regard for consent. Proof News examined the policies and enforcement of eight popular voice cloning tools, revealing widespread gaps in ensuring voices are cloned ethically. www.proofnews.org/ai-tools-mak...
- Proof Founder @juliaangwin.com says the industry needs to replace the idea of journalistic objectivity with rigorous processes. "Basically, are your processes rigorous enough to overcome the inherent bias that you have as a human?" journalistsresource.org/media/ai-jou...
- Founder @juliaangwin.com appears on the It’s All Journalism Podcast. Tune in to hear Julia discuss launching Proof News, how Proof is building trust with audiences, the importance of learning from science, and expanding beyond traditional journalism formats: open.spotify.com/episode/0jZC...
- Announcing a new feature - in keeping with our desire to promote trustworthy news, we encourage you to Republish Our Stories under a creative commons license wherever you see a “republish” button on our website! Check out www.proofnews.org/republish-ou... to learn more.
- In last week's episode of the Pivot Podcast, Proof's Founder @juliaangwin.com discusses bringing data to the forefront of investigative journalism, the future of AI, and the myth of artificial general intelligence. Tune in here: open.spotify.com/episode/3hPE...
- In the latest Proof Newsletter, reporter @awgordon.bsky.social discusses Google’s new AI Overview, and how it gives us a rare up-close look into the errors and limitations of AI models.
- In the latest episode of @vox.cm episode of Today, explained Proof Founder @juliaangwin.com sits down with @davidpierce.xyz to discuss the future of AI and how the research doesn’t support the hype.
- Tune in for a thoughtful take on the widening gap between the promises and reality: open.spotify.com/episode/2vYp...
- Thank you @regret.bsky.social !
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- Holding power to account is not just the job of journalists. Online creators have risen as a new force of accountability. Today, @proofnews.bsky.social founder @juliaangwin.com hosts a panel of creators to discuss their work, the challenges and how they build trust with audiences.
- Tune in at 3 pm EST: shorensteincenter.org/new-event/21...
- Why AI watermarking won’t save us and why you might need a “safe word” with your loved ones to help them know if they are talking to you or an AI voice clone. An interview with AI policy expert Irene Solaiman in this week’s @proofnews.bsky.social news newsletter. www.proofnews.org/ai-watermark...
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- Journalism is not just about the first story -- it's about persistent monitoring. Two months ago we tested leading AI models and found their responses to voter queries were highly inaccurate. We tested again and, sadly, the inaccuracies remain.
- The makers of AI chatbots ChatGPT and Claude pledged to send voter questions to trusted sources, CanIVote.org and TurboVote.org, respectively. But in our tests, neither ChatGPT 3.5 nor Claude 3 Sonnet ever referred to those websites in responses to voter queries. Our latest:
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