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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Companies may be using ChatGPT to grow, but that doesn’t mean they are training AIs.

It's the MAG7 that's driving growth. And they're all fixated on training AI in some capacity

Training a new AI uses a lot of energy. Querying an existing AI uses far less.

That's presumably a lot of energy.

[–] FlowVoid@lemmy.world -1 points 8 hours ago

The MAG7 operate large and growing cloud services, so their datacenter costs would grow even without any AI training.

And charging $5 for a video query does not mean the query uses $5 of energy. The query is priced to recoup training costs that were already incurred.