If you spend any time on social media, you have probably encountered the idea of "AI guilt." The narrative goes something like this: every time you ask ChatGPT to draft a polite email or generate a weeknight dinner recipe, a server farm somewhere drains an ungodly amount of clean drinking water just to keep the chips from melting.
Now, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wants to put that meme to rest. Speaking on the premiere episode of the Sources podcast with Alex Heath, Altman pushed back hard against the perception that simple AI prompts are environmental catastrophes.
