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Artificial intelligence has become a popular and innovative tool which has helped to improve and transform industries across the globe, with millions of individuals benefiting from the solutions it offers. This popularity has spanned into a plethora of AI tools for many kinds of generation, such as text, image, video and more, all of which require energy-intensive processes to produce and maintain their increasingly high output.<\/p>\n

From this, concerns have been raised on the sustainability of these tools and the potential outcomes as they continue to grow in utilization and consumption. There has been a focus to bring down energy costs and carbon emissions, to ensure that these tools can continue to develop whilst balancing with environmental responsibility.<\/p>\n

Here at KnownHost, a study was conducted to uncover the environmental impact of these tools that are growing in usage, looking at the Carbon Rating of 50 AI tools and comparing how much CO2<\/sub> is produced per generator.<\/p>\n

AI Tools with the Worst Carbon Footprint<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Rytr is the AI Tool with a high output of carbon dioxide, producing 10.1g per page view on their site. During a month, the site will receive 104,700 users on average which means 1,057 kilos of CO2 <\/sub>will be produced from this tool alone.<\/p>\n

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Spellbook is second, producing 6.5g of CO2<\/sub> per page view, with an average monthly traffic of 3,100, but still producing 20 kilos of carbon dioxide a month overall. Wordtune produces 4.4g of CO2<\/sub> per page view, totalling just over 1,200 kilograms a month due to over 250,000 users on average.<\/p>\n

In fourth position, Synthesia produces 3.3g of CO2<\/sub> per page view, with a large average of monthly traffic at 468k, totalling over 1,530 kilograms of CO2 <\/sub>a month. Lastly, Deep Dream Generator produces 2.7 grams of CO2<\/sub> per page view and produces 750 kilograms a month on average from a traffic volume of 276k.<\/p>\n

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From the study, it was also found that the popular tool, ChatGPT, with over 164 million users a month, has the highest production of CO2<\/sub>, yet it has a lower production per page view of 1.59g than the top five we\u2019ve discussed. It produces an average over 260,930 kilograms of carbon dioxide per month.<\/p>\n

AI Tools with the Best Carbon Footprint<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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At the top of the list is MusicGen, which produced 0.07g of CO2<\/sub> per page view. It also has a low monthly traffic with the estimated footfall of viewers producing 335 grams of carbon dioxide a month.<\/p>\n

Grok is second with 0.17g of CO2<\/sub> per page view, however it has a higher amount of traffic with an average of 190,100 users a month. Fliki has a slight increase in both areas 0.19g of CO2<\/sub> produced per page view and a total traffic of 193,800 a month.<\/p>\n

Artbreeder has another jump to producing 0.23g of CO2<\/sub> <\/sup>per page view, but with a low traffic of 27,200 viewers per month which produced just over 6 kilos of carbon overall. Appypie Design has the largest traffic at 661,500 therefore produces 175 kilograms of carbon dioxide per month on average, however it still produces a small amount of CO2<\/sub> at 0.26g per page view, which is the fifth lowest across all tested AI tools.<\/p>\n

Conclusion<\/strong><\/h2>\n

For the future of AI innovation, it is clear to recognise the importance of advocating for energy-efficient practices and gain insight into the changes that can be made so that the contribution to harmful emissions can be reduced. This approach can then lead to a greener future, aligning with global sustainability along with fostering a culture of technological advancement.<\/p>\n

Methodology<\/strong><\/h2>\n

For this study, a seed list of 50 Generative AI Tools was drawn up and their URLs tested by https:\/\/www.websitecarbon.com\/<\/a>, an online calculator that rates websites on a scale from A+ to F. These URLs were then crawled by Screaming Frog SEO Spider<\/a> to find out the amount of carbon produced per page view, which was then multiplied by estimated site traffic, according to Ahrefs,<\/a> to establish how much CO2 <\/sub>is produced.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n