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jbz
@jbz@indieweb.social  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

⚡ Researchers Just Found Something Extremely Alarming About AI's Power Usage

「 As detailed in a new paper, researchers from the open-source AI platform Hugging Face found that the energy demands of text-to-video generators quadruple when the length of a generated video doubles — indicating that the power required for increasingly sophisticated generations doesn’t scale linearly 」

https://futurism.com/future-society/ai-power-usage-text-to-video-generator

#ai #genai #climate

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Researchers Just Found Something Extremely Alarming About AI's Power Usage

The carbon footprint of generative AI-based tools that can turn text prompts into videos is far worse than we thought.
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Petra van Cronenburg
@NatureMC@mastodon.online replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

@jbz Well, the headline is worst clickbait: we should not forget that other uses of #AI may show also nonlinear increases and the increase of energy use in AI #datacenters is already climate-killing high. (And that's beside the waste of drinking water.)

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