3 papers
cs.CY2025
Responsible Data Stewardship: Generative AI and the Digital Waste Problem
Vanessa Utz
As generative AI systems become widely adopted, they enable unprecedented creation levels of synthetic data across text, images, audio, and video modalities. While research has add…
cs.AI2025
Digital Overconsumption and Waste: A Closer Look at the Impacts of Generative AI
Vanessa Utz, Steve DiPaola
Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems currently contribute negatively to the production of digital waste, via the associated energy consumption and the related CO2 emissi…
cs.CY2025
Climate Implications of Diffusion-based Generative Visual AI Systems and their Mass Adoption
Vanessa Utz, Steve DiPaola
Climate implications of rapidly developing digital technologies, such as blockchains and the associated crypto mining and NFT minting, have been well documented and their massive G…