Behind the glory: the dark sides of AI models that big tech will… – Towards AI

Originally published on Towards AI. With ChatGPT blowing the internet, we are at a critical juncture that demands us to again ask hard questions about the impact of AI models on society, a conversation that starts but never ends. In this article, I aim to bring attention to the importance of knowing that, even though large AI models are impressive, there are often unacknowledged costs behind them. It is like saying " data is the new oil" to describe its value, but this analogy often ignores the costs of the oil and mining industries. To understand what AI is made from, we need to leave Silicon Valley and go to the place where the stuff for the AI industry is made. The term "artificial intelligence" may evoke the ideas of algorithms and data, but it is powered by the rare earth's minerals and resources that make up the computing components [1].