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• brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  one viral AI avatar or “Barbie Box” image can consume enough energy to fully charge an electric car several times.

  A Model 3 battery is ~200,000 kiloJoules.

  Absolute worst case for an image, even taking extreme estimates and amortizing out all the training, is like 20kJ. Maybe 60kJ for a slop video that takes under a minute to render, which is on the order of browsing Lemmy on a laptop for a bit.

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• yermaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I don’t think anybody turns their phones on thinking “I wonder what halfbaked AI generated video i can watch now?”

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• Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  AI slop is a different topic.

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