In the late 2000s there was a push by a lot of businesses to not print emails and people use to add a ‘Please consider this environment before printing this email.’

Considering how bad LLMs/‘ai’ are with power consumption and water usage a new useless tag email footer should be made.

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    you got an error in magnitude there: its 5.32*10¹⁴ requests, so 532 407 407 407 407 requests

    (2.3 × billion tonnes)/(4.32 grams) 2.3 billion tonnes = 2.3 trillion kilos = 2.3 quadrillion grams ≈ 532 407 000 000 000 requests needed for equivalence to Covid CO2 drop ≈ 912 500 000 000 requests made per year calculator output below:

    912 500 000 000/532 407 407 407 407
    ≈ 0.001 7%
    (2.5 × billion) × 365
    = 912 500 000 000
    (2.3 × billion tonnes)/(4.32 grams)
    ≈ 532 407 407 407 407
    

    See what i mean? Stop ChatGPT, achieve 0,0017% of the reduction that Covid brought.