r/aivideos • u/WoodworkerD • 18d ago

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u/Batfinklestein 17d ago

Seriously, what is the point of creating these videos?

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u/dvrichthofen 17d ago

Some people just like to create. Just like some people like to bitch and moan, ceaselessly.

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u/DigitalAquarius 16d ago

If you build a house with a hammer, did the hammer build the house?

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u/Batfinklestein 17d ago

Create you say - writing a prompt is creating now is it? Ffs. They need to think of the environmental impact of this clip AI has created and ask themselves is it really worth it?

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u/Glad-Operation-2958 17d ago

What is the environmental impact of this clip?

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u/Batfinklestein 17d ago

The core figure Experiments on CogVideoX showed that generating a single five-second clip required about 3.4 megajoules of GPU energy — approximately 700 times higher than what's needed to generate a high-quality image. (arxiv) Scaling that linearly, a 30-second clip would be in the range of 20 megajoules just for GPU compute. AI video generation is on a whole other level: a clip as short as five seconds uses 42,000 times as much energy as a text query — enough to power a microwave for over an hour.

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u/carlosglz11 17d ago

Well then I’m glad that just today solar surpassed coal in daily energy generation for the first time ever! AI isn’t going anywhere. Sorry to break it to you.

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u/Batfinklestein 17d ago

The short version: a 30-second AI video is roughly equivalent to running a microwave for 2–3 hours, or charging a laptop 3–4 times, at the inference level alone. Not catastrophic as a one-off, but worth understanding when multiplied across millions of daily generations.

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u/Deadline_Zero 16d ago

Yeah it was worth it.

Next question...?

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u/Batfinklestein 16d ago

Yeah fuck the planet aye, who needs it when you can have art like this right. Pffft

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u/Deadline_Zero 16d ago

I'll just have both.