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Assunto:  Re: Altman rejects viral water claims but...
De:       Kurt Weiske
Data:     Tue, 24 Feb 2026 07:16:19 -0800
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 MP> "Now that we don't do that, you see these things on the internet like,
 MP> `Don't use ChatGPT, it's 17 gallons of water for each query' or
 MP> whatever," Altman said. "This is completely untrue, totally insane, no
 MP> connection to reality."

 Is he complaining about the statement or the accuracy of the number of
 gallons used to cool their infrastructure? It would be more comforting
 if he were able to say that 100% of their data centers use closed-loop
 cooling systems - but he didn't.

 MP> As well as dismissing claims about ChatGPT's water usage, Altman also
 MP> offered a more unusual defense of OpenAI's overall energy use. He
 MP> argued that discussions around AI's energy consumption were "unfair"
 MP> because they don't account for how much energy it takes to train humans
 MP> to perform similar tasks.

 MP>     "It also takes a lot of energy to train a human."
 MP>     Sam Altman, CEO OpenAI

 MP> "But it also takes a lot of energy to train a human," Altman said. "It
 MP> takes like 20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that
 MP> time before you get smart. And not only that, it took the very
 MP> widespread evolution of the 100 billion people that have ever lived and
 MP> learned not to get eaten by predators and learned how to figure out
 MP> science and whatever, to produce you."


Just stay in your pod and feed the matrix, it'll be OK.

 MP> He continued: "If you ask ChatGPT a question, how much energy does it
 MP> take once its model is trained to answer that question versus a human?
 MP> And probably, AI has already caught up on an energy efficiency basis,
 MP> measured that way."

 MP> I can see the argument Altman is making - that human intelligence also
 MP> comes with an energy cost - but it feels reductive, and faintly
 MP> cynical, to reduce the value of a human life to its energy consumption.

Or equating the value of an AI against that of a sentient, human being.

We're all going to die.


 
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