• Kilgore Trout@feddit.it
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    12 hours ago

    False. It’s been shown that resolving prompts also drives a major energy consumption, albeit maybe not so higher than regular search queries.

    • Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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      2 hours ago

      A prompt is like 1/1000 of the power used as a microwave for the same amount of time.

      So the difference between a normal query and an AI query is negligible.