🌸Yazoo! COMMISSIONS OPEN 🌸: I'm vegan and I'm inclined to agree with where youre going, though I know all the reactionary online people have already made it clear that they dont want to be inconvenienced by the knowledge of what happens to cows, chickens, etc. bred for meat or how detrimental it is to our planet.

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

What Do Google’s AI Answers Cost the Environment?www.scientificamerican.com Google is bringing AI answers to a billion people this year, but generative AI requires much more energy than traditional keyword searches

Killing the environment one incredibly dogshit search response at a time

you vegan? asking since you care about the environment so much

I'm vegan and I'm inclined to agree with where youre going, though I know all the reactionary online people have already made it clear that they dont want to be inconvenienced by the knowledge of what happens to cows, chickens, etc. bred for meat or how detrimental it is to our planet.

That's not to say the aforementioned data output problem isn't also an issue, but people will get so easily defensive when faced with more than one issue, esp one that might inconvenience them

carnists have a lot of cognitive dissonance when it comes to veganism; they have been brainwashed and lied to their entire lives, and suddenly they are being faced with the reality of their actions- they don't like that. not consuming animal products actually has an impact

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