I no like e-waste, I no like LLM, but the numbers in the DW article do not look right. As per WHO, 62 million tons of waste were created in 2022; so cumulative 5 million tons by 2030 could not mean "around 1,000 times more e-waste than was produced in 2023".

Interestingly, the paper argues we need to "prolong, reuse, and recycle generative AI hardware", and I think we probably should not have manufactured it in the first place.

WHO: who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/

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