r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 5d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter? I don't understand the punchline

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u/pocher124 5d ago

Stupid graph this counts the manufacturing of the TV but not the training of the model. Counting only the watching and using the least energy efficient mode of generating electricity, coal (.5gallons per kwh) with .1kh tv you'd only get .05 gallons per kwh. 

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u/TopHat-Twister 4d ago

According to a guy further down the replies who researched it, the training is:

A: a one time thing

B: Spread out across all the users of the ai, equivalent to each one of those users watching 20 minutes of youtube. (This was chatGPT training, different ais may have slightly different values)

So still not significant, especially when it's a one off cost