US EditionChilean Community Runs Human-Powered “Chatbot” to Spotlight AI’s Environmental Cost
About 50 volunteers responded to over 25,000 requests during a 12-hour event to expose AI data centers’ significant water and energy consumption impacts.
- About 50 residents ran a human-operated chatbot for 12 hours at a Quilicura community center, handling more than 25,000 requests to reveal AI's hidden resource costs.
- Amid a broader debate about AI's costs, organizers said the stunt aimed to highlight AI's hidden water footprint and Chile's decade-long drought raised concerns over data center water use.
- Volunteers rotated on laptops and walked around the room to ask others when unsure, replied in Spanish to signal a human, and a penciled sloth drawing arrived about 10 minutes later.
- Cloud computing giants Amazon, Google and Microsoft have built or planned data centers in the Santiago region, where some projects faced court challenges over water usage and Google has argued its Quilicura data center is the `most energy efficient in Latin America`.
- With Chile's decade-long drought, organizers said the project seeks to reveal hidden water and energy costs of AI computer chips to influence policymakers and local communities in Chile.
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A chatbot entirely powered by humans, not artificial intelligence? This Chilean community shows why.
About 50 residents of a community outside Chile’s capital spent Saturday trying their best to power an entirely human-operated chatbot that could answer questions and make silly pictures on command, in a message to highlight the environmental toll of artificial intelligence data centers in the region. Organizers say the 12-hour project fielded more than 25,000 requests from around the world. Asking the Quili.AI website to generate an image of a …
A chatbot entirely powered by humans, not artificial intelligence? Thi
About 50 residents of a community outside Chile’s capital spent Saturday trying their best to power an entirely human-operated chatbot that could answer questions and make silly pictures on command, in a message to highlight the environmental toll of artificial intelligence data centers in the region. Organizers say the 12-hour project fielded more than 25,000 requests from around the world. Asking the Quili.AI website to generate an image of a …
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A chatbot entirely powered by humans, not artificial intelligence? This Chilean community shows why
About 50 members of a community outside Chile’s capital spent Saturday trying their best to power an entirely human-operated chatbot that could answer questions and make silly pictures on command, in a message to highlight the environmental toll and water usage of artificial intelligence data center
A chatbot entirely powered by humans, not artificial intelligence; Chilean community shows why
About 50 members of a community outside Chile’s capital spent Saturday trying their best to power an entirely human-operated chatbot that could answer questions and make silly pictures on command, in a message to highlight the environmental toll of artificial…
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