There’s a high energy cost to generative AI. But even the massive amount of energy needed to train and operate the large language models pales in comparison to what’s required to run the video models behind tools like OpenAI’s viral Sora app, which are flooding our social media feeds with goofy fake clips.
Generative AI models, on the whole, require a lot of energy to power. The servers that are running your ChatGPT query use a compute-intensive process that requires a lot of electricity to maintain. AI…
