"Stochastic Parrots" AI Energy Impact Criticized for 100x Inflated Statistic
AndyMasley · x · 2026-08-14
The author points out that the influential paper Stochastic Parrots based its section on the terrible environmental consequences of AI on a statistic that was wrongly inflated by two orders of magnitude (100x). The authors have reportedly never acknowledged or fixed this error.
The critique surfaces as Emily Bender increasingly comments on the economic effects of data centers, which the author argues falls outside her expertise as a linguist.
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