Google's AI Overviews must create entirely new information in response to a search query. That costs an estimated *30 times* more energy than simply extracting information from a source through a traditional search. 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/what... by @parshallison.bsky.social
If you need terabytes of data and more energy than the world's fourth largest economy to create a chatty, half-assed assistant that would probably be fired on the first day if human, the problem is not the data. The problem is the design.
