Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI

Re:Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI by squeaky-clean on Friday December 26, 2025 @10:07AM (#46392735)

Those statistics include the viewing device in the energy usage for streaming energy usage, but not for GenAI. Unless you're exclusively using ChatGPT without a screen it's not a fair comparison.

The 0.077 kWh figure assumes 70% of users watching on a 50 inch TV. It goes down to 0.018 kWh if we assume 100% laptop viewing. And for cell phones the chart bar is so small I can't even click it to view the number.

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Re:Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI by lokar on Friday December 26, 2025 @11:41AM (#46393668)

And it’s fair assume much of the time watching streaming would instead have been spent on TV

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Re:Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI by easterncalculus on Friday December 26, 2025 @10:26AM (#46392987)

> Unless you're exclusively using ChatGPT without a screen it's not a fair comparison.

Neither is comparing text output to streaming video

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Re:Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI by pardon_me on Saturday December 27, 2025 @05:40AM (#46400779)

Compare generative AI video to streamed video, and generative text to streamed text etc. The differences are closer to an order of magnitude. The comparison to be made is the processing power required to deliver the content, not to display it.

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