As the Los Angeles fires rage on, displacing nearly 180,000 people and destroying over 9,000 buildings, many social media users have pointed the blame at an unusual target: ChatGPT.
ChatGPT and other AI models have a massive carbon footprint, which contributes to climate change. Climate change is responsible for drier conditions and warming temperatures, which in turn creates the perfect environment for wildfires to spark and spread when picked up by strong winds.
So in a way, ChatGPT is part of the problem by contributing to climate change. But no, ChatGPT didn’t start the fire, and it’s not the reason why the city ran out of water.
Martin Adams, former general manager of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power told the Los Angeles Times, “The [water] system has never been designed to fight a wildfire that then envelops a community.” Firefighters ran out of water …