Re:Generative AI uses more energy on non-English text
by geysersam on Sunday November 15, 2026 @12:39AM
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Non-latin characters use more bytes due to utf-8. But texts don't necessarily use more bytes because of that. I'd be surprised if, for example mandarin, uses significantly more bytes on average.
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Re:Generative AI uses more energy on non-English text
by stephantul on Sunday November 15, 2026 @04:46AM
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This is incidental and a cherry pick. Cyrillic and greek are regular alphabets, and cost two bytes per character instead of one.