These are the worst ChatGPT prompts for the environment, study claims

Politeness perhaps does have a cost, as far as the planet's concerned

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Every time you ask ChatGPT a question, you're using energy but how much? A new study has revealed just how environmentally costly it is to interact with large language models (LLMs) and what users can do to reduce their carbon footprint.

Researchers in Germany gave 14 open source LLMs-ranging in size from 7-72 billion parameters -1,000 benchmark questions and measured the CO2 emissions generated during each response.