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ChatGPT has the most marketing, but it's only part of the AI ecosystem... and honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if other AI products are bigger now. Practically every time someone does a Google search, Gemini AI spits out a summary whether you wanted it or not — and Google processes more than 8 billion search queries per day. That's a lot of slop.
There are also more bespoke tools that are being pushed aggressively in enterprise. Microsoft's Copilot is used extensively in tech for code generation and code reviews. Ditto for Claude Code. And believe me, tech companies are pushing this shit hard. I write code for a living, and the company I work for is so bullish on AI that they've mandated that us devs have to use it every day if we want to stay employed. They're even tracking our usage to make sure we comply... and I know I'm not alone in my experience.
All of that combined probably still doesn't reach the same level of CO² emissions as global air travel, but there are a lot more fish in this proverbial pond than just OpenAI, and when you add them all up, the numbers get big. AI usage is also rising much, much faster than air travel, so it's really only a matter of time before it does cross that threshold.
they list the others in the article.