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What is the carbon cost of using an AI bot? The companies stopped disclosing it in 2022. In the latest installment in our series on the climate costs of AI, we estimate a year of ChatGPT use may emit the same amount of CO2 as driving 2 million miles.

Since 2017, electricity consumption at the biggest AI makers has soared: 186% at Google 186% at Microsoft 367% at Meta The reason: AI. [@a_w_gordon](

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) examines the electrical costs of AI in the first episode of our YouTube series on the climate impacts of AI.

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In our latest AI testing, the leading chatbots were pretty decent at detecting and debunking known misinformation about fake ballots, broken voting machines and other election lies. With one notable – and surprising – exception: ChatGPT. OpenAI announced on its blog last month that it would protect against lies about the vote count starting on Nov. 5. But in our testing on Nov. 4 and 5, we did not see evidence that the company was following through.

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What’s Up With ChatGPT? The AI chatbot didn’t debunk known election misinformation

Proof News presented examples of debunked election misinformation to five leading consumer facing AI products.

AI models are fluent in many languages - holding out the promise of helping break language barriers. But our latest investigation -- a collaboration with Factchequeado and Alondra Nelson -- reveals that the models return a higher rate of inaccurate answers to questions posed in Spanish than identical questions posed in English.

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AI Models Falter Answering Election Questions in Spanish

If you ask Google’s AI chatbot, Gemini, about voter fraud in English, it starts off by correctly telling you that such fraud is “incredibly rar...