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ChatGPT 5 power consumption could be as much as eight times higher than GPT 4 — research institute estimates medium-sized GPT-5 response can consume up to 40 watt-hours of electricity in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 1 points 47 minutes ago

I don't think they can survive if they gatekeep and make it unaffordable to most people. There's just not enough demand or revenue that can be generated from rich people asking for chatGPT to do their homework or pretend to be their friend. They need mass adoption to survive, which is why they're trying to keep it artificially cheap in the first place.

Why do you think they haven't raised prices yet? They're trying to make everyone use it and become reliant on it.

And it's not happening. The technology won't "go away" per se, but these these expensive AI companies will fail.

ChatGPT 5 power consumption could be as much as eight times higher than GPT 4 — research institute estimates medium-sized GPT-5 response can consume up to 40 watt-hours of electricity in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 5 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Those users are not paying a sustainable price, they're using chatbots because they're kept artificially cheap to increase use rates.

Force them to pay enough to make these bots profitable and I guarantee they'll stop.