Generative AI uses more energy on non-English text

Re:Generative AI uses more energy on non-English text by yipinwong on Saturday November 14, 2026 @02:15PM (#50499878)

I am dumb to internal works of AI.

Genuinely curious, not sacastic question below.

Is this one of those posts like "eating more sugar causes bad health" type of post because most of info on internet is in English? Or a new insight people was not aware of?

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Re:Generative AI uses more energy on non-English text by ImprobableTruth on Saturday November 14, 2026 @03:21PM (#50500431)

The former (it's well known that non-English languages don't tokenize well), but it's nice to put a concrete number to the impact.

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Re:Generative AI uses more energy on non-English text by yipinwong on Saturday November 14, 2026 @04:14PM (#50500879)

ty. so basically a formalization so others can build upon this idea.

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