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Inspiration

Desire to bring awareness to the environmental impacts of generative AI queries.

Reflecting on historical technological advancements, we recalled the rise of CFCs in the 1930s as cooling chemicals in refrigerators and the negative effects that these chemicals had on the environment. Once more research and awareness was brought to the world's attention on these ozone depleting chemicals, an international treaty was adopted in 1987 to phase out the use of CFCs worldwide. The Montreal Protocol is regarded as a highly successful global environmental treaty.

With the current rise of AI, not many people are aware of the significant environmental impacts of the training and usage of generative AI. We were inspired to bring more awareness to the severely high levels of energy required for LLM training, query interpretation, and response generation.

What it does

Tracks user's ChatGPT queries through a Chrome extension
Authenticates users via Auth0
Visualizes GenAI usage over time
Displays a leaderboard comparing users' tracked energy consumption to motivate users to "compete" for the lowest energy consumed through ChatGPT queries