Endless circle, like fighting spam, isn't it?
And don't forget, as mentioned before, AI consumes a lot of energy and water.
An article in the Brussels Times claims a ChatGPT query consumes up to 25 times more electricity than a regular Google search.
Additionally, about 20 to 50 queries evaporate about half a litre of water to keep the computers cool.
https://www.brusselstimes.com/1042696/c ... han-google
An older article by Tech HQ claims training ChatGPT consumed 1.287 GWh (Giga Watt hour), the equivalent of what 120 household in the US consume in a year.
https://techhq.com/2023/03/data-center- ... e-chatgpt/
That was for training ChatGPT 3, some say training ChatGPT 4 did cost factors more.
And now they start training ChatGPT 5.
All this energy and water consumption to get an answer you can't trust.
Nonetheless, every big tech company will jump on the bandwagon, afraid they otherwise will be left behind.
And if you don't use their product, they can't show you ads, or sell your data, and thus will have less revenue.
Can't disappoint the stockholders, now can we?
B.T.W. DuckDuckGo uses the Bing API to perform searches.
Bing results aren't as good as Google's used to be.
