Chapter 17 · Five drops
Meta-alphabet
In the brief edition: The power and water one AI question uses
What was read, and when
- The recorded reply: 27 September 2026, from the model named in its header, with the vendor's defaults, no system prompt and one turn. One person's name in the reply is printed as [name].
- The card: a lesson's card from the courses, read on 27 September 2026. It names no source.
- The first maker's post on the energy and water of its assistant's prompts, 21 August 2025, and the paper behind it, the same day; both read on 27 September 2026. The post's footnote says its data and claims have not been verified by an independent third party.
- The second maker's post on its study, 22 July 2025, read on 27 September 2026: "a first approximation", reviewed by two consultancies. It does not say whether its water includes the power station's.
- The study of the bottle, in its version of 26 March 2025, read on 27 September 2026. The 2023 version the reply dates was not read.
- The environmental court's note on Cerrillos, 27 February 2024, read on 27 September 2026.
- Not opened: the chief executive's post of June 2025 behind the reply's own figure, and the international energy agency's report on the total.
The sources are printed in the full edition, chapter by chapter, with the day each was read. This page prints the same list.