Sustainability
Earlier in January, a new viral trend captured social media users’ interest. When Egyptians opened ChatGPT earlier this year and typed some version of “create a caricature of me based on everything you know about me,” few considered that such a trivial request carried an environmental cost. Every artificial intelligence (AI) generated cartoonish self-portraits shared and circulated on social media platforms, such as Facebook and Instagram, relies on energy-intensive servers, high electricity and water consumption, and a hidden toll most…
