Too bad to be true
🤷 How can baseless claims about AI spread so widely?
Despite being incorrect or greatly exaggerated, claims about AI are spreading far and wide, both in the news media and among individuals. Is it a conspiracy? No, something even more powerful.
🤦 Here we go again: A new, very shaky claim about AI and heat is spreading fast
A non-peer-reviewed study with extreme claims about data centers and temperature increases is now spreading across both news and social media. Time to bring out the vaccine!
🚰 A single golf club uses more water than ChatGPT
On social media, the claim is spreading that a single prompt consumes a half-liter water bottle. That is completely wrong. In reality, very little water is used, especially compared to other activities like golf or agriculture.
🤳 Study: Social media and gaming do not affect adolescents' mental health
A British study of 25,000 adolescents over three years finds no evidence that screen time leads to increased anxiety or depression. Neither active nor passive use of social media shows correlation with worsened mental health.
🤨 Researchers question high-profile studies on microplastics in the human body
Seven studies reporting microplastics in the brain, testes, and other organs have been challenged by other researchers in scientific journals. Analytical techniques for measuring microplastics in tissue can produce false positive results because body fat can be confused with common plastics.
⚡ An AI query uses as little energy as a microwave for one-tenth of a second
A simple text query to AI uses only 114 joules - equivalent to running a microwave for one-tenth of a second. Generating a high-quality image requires 2,282 joules, which corresponds to five and a half seconds in the microwave.
🎧 Do you remember the iPod scare? Hearing loss, death, and robberies
Do you suffer from iPod thumb? Did you survive the iCrime wave? Are you hearing-impaired after years of music listening? Do you even recall all the problems we were supposedly facing in the iPod society?
🖥️ AI usage has less environmental impact than claimed
A ChatGPT query uses only 3 watt-hours of energy, equivalent to watching TV for 3 minutes or uploading 30 pictures to social media. Water consumption for AI is low—data centers use only 500 ml of water per 300 queries, while producing a single hamburger requires over 600 gallons of water.
🐝 Insects in Sweden have not decreased according to new study
A new study shows no decrease in insects in Sweden over the past 35 years. In one location in Skåne, the number of insects has even increased. The study is based on data from four different locations in Sweden.