Generative AI uses more energy on non-English text

(news.umich.edu)

11 points | by DeepLogin 3 days ago

3 comments

  • macrolime 1 minute ago
    Google AI overviews refusing to answer in English unless explicitly instructed with "Answer in English only" is pretty annoying.
  • esperent 12 minutes ago
    You have to read about half of the article before it mentions this, which should have been in the first paragraph:

    > The researchers found the energy and accuracy disparity by measuring the amount of energy used by three open-source AI models, Alibaba’s Qwen 3, Google’s Gemma 3, and Meta’s Llama 3.1.

  • pridy 4 minutes ago
    Does AI process maybe in English?