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Re:Generative AI uses more energy on non-English text by sznio on Saturday November 14, 2026 @12:56PM (#50499162)
logographic languages still win I guess, a 4-byte chinese character beats a n-character English word for that same concept.

but yeah, anything alphabetic yet not latin gets the worst tradeoff.

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Re:Generative AI uses more energy on non-English text by brainwad on Saturday November 14, 2026 @01:23PM (#50499403)
Most CJK characters are 3 bytes in UTF-8. But then most English words translate to more than one character, so 5 bytes might be more realistic (apparently Chinese averages 1.6-1.7 characters per word).
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