Raghavendra Selvan

How CO2STLY Is CHI? The Carbon Footprint of Generative AI in HCI Research and What We Should Do About It

The energy cost of developing and deploying Generative AI (GenAI) models has exploded with their mass adoption, as has the ensuing carbon emissions. The climate impact of this is currently unknown. In Human-Computer Interaction, GenAI models are rarely trained but often used. Based on detailed review of 282 papers, we…