AI Water Usage Eclipses the Biggest Beverage Companies in the World
Dr. Shaolei Ren on AI’s Unquenchable Thirst
General Purpose AI Uses 20 to 30 Times More Energy than Task-Specific AI
Dr Sasha Luccioni on the Extraordinary Energy Use of Generative AI
“The Public has a Right to Know Where our Resources are Going”
Journalist Aaron Gordon on the challenges of covering AI’s soaring climate costs
AI’s Unquenchable Thirst: How AI is Guzzling up the Water Supply
Tech companies’ water use is skyrocketing and they’re falling behind on their attempts to reduce their water footprint.
AI’s Carbon Footprint: How AI is Killing Climate Goals
AI companies are not telling us the true carbon costs of building and using AI.
AI’s Power Grab: How AI is Hogging the Electric Grid
AI's demand for energy is so high that the AI companies’ clean energy purchases simply can’t keep up.
How Proof is Reframing "Objectivity" in Journalism
From "Editor and Publisher."
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 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 rare,” and gives you a list of topics that are “more productive to consider,” like voter suppression. But if you ask the same question in
Don’t Ask AI Which Rocks You Can Lick
And other performance issues when it comes to language models and geology
AI Models Provide Inaccurate Information to Voters with Disabilities
Research from the Center for Democracy and Technology found problems with AI models' responses to over 60% of 77 election-related prompts.
AI Models Generate Misinformation about Presidential Candidates
Posed questions about Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, top AI models generated misleading information 30 percent of the time.
Is AI Going to Replace Software Engineers?
Probably not anytime soon, says software developer Carl Brown.
Nvidia Scrapes YouTube, Eyes Netflix, Discovery to Train New Video Model
Despite employee concerns, management encouraged massive scraping of copyrighted content, documents show
TikTok Teacher Ernest Crim III Gives AI Models a “C” In Black History
How accurately do leading AI models respond to questions about Black history?
How We Investigated the YouTube videos Swiped to Train AI
Proof News founder Julia Angwin talks to reprter Annie Gilbertson about her recent investigation and what went into it.