Archive for who gets paywall https://archive.is/09ZtS
(I didn’t get paywall but the verge is in my noscript blacklist)
They boast having hired 5 slop specialists that chose the least worse shots over 70000 prompts
They have something like $50 billion yearly revenue, can’t pay real people for an ad? Literally peanuts for them.
Try running a local video generation model like DALLE-3 on your machine; or just generate a few frames, like 96 sequentially in FLUX at 1024×1024.
Video generation is a lot harder on GPUs than single image gen.
My own local performance is 480W with consumer level hardware, and obviously enterprise grade can be about 5× more efficient (see: Nvidia H200/600W) depending on optimizations, load balancing, and highest grade chipsets, but overall, it’s still a pretty gigantic computer task to generate even a five minute long video from scratch.
I don’t have a machine capable of any of that kind of compute. And W doesn’t tell me much about the amount of energy used.