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A study quoted to say environment-wise AI writing was better than human writing. It was fake. Research that led me to that knowledge vanished. I found it again.

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Sarah Smith
Dec 29, 2025
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Question: Why do they include embodied carbon of the hardware used for training but not for inference?

This is just one very politely framed but utterly damning expose of a “paper” by Tomlinson et al titled The carbon emissions of writing and illustrating are lower for AI than for humans.

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