AI power and water use is through the roof, and 80–90% is each query
AI power and water use is through the roof, and 80–90% is each query
There’s been a lot of discourse lately from AI boosters making excuses for AI’s ghastly power consumption. The reason you’re seeing these excuses now is because even the mainstream media is writing…
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I had been using a CSS rule to hide the AI overviews on Google.
Because of this news I just installed a Firefox extension to force Google search results to use the "web" tab (which presumably skips generating them entirely).
By the way, is there a DuckDuckGo bang for Google "udm=14" ("web" tab) yet? I have been looking for something like this for awhile, but no success so far. It's very frustrating to receive these AI generated answers even when using "!g".
The extension I ended up using for Firefox was Straight to the Web. Auditing the source code I saw that it looked for certain Google URL patterns being navigated to and re-wrote them.
I just tested with DuckDuckGo's "!g" feature and it seemed to work, but I don't use DDG so I don't know if there's anything I'm missing.