Gil Wanderley
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Gil Wanderley@lemmy.eco.brto
Technology@lemmy.world•ChatGPT 5 power consumption could be as much as eight times higher than GPT 4 — research institute estimates medium-sized GPT-5 response can consume up to 40 watt-hours of electricityEnglish
1·2 months agoYeah, I saw some people speculating GPT-5 is having worse performance in some tasks than older models but still being forced to everyone because it’s a consolidation and cost cutting version, but how could it be cutting costs if it consumes 8 times more power?

The Brazilian petrol company has been broadcasting a “fair energy transition” ad (Fair only to the company shareholders!) while working to drill oil from the Amazon, so that first line of the meme really reminds me of this.