Some of your AI prompts could cause 50 times more CO2 emissions than others

Subject matter also resulted in significantly different levels of CO2 emissions. Questions that required lengthy reasoning processes, for example abstract algebra or philosophy, led to up to six times higher emissions than more straightforward subjects, like high school history.

So we've finally realised the sci-fi trope of defeating machines using philosophical paradoxes. Only, instead of robot heads exploding, Tuvalu sinks.