The difference is that the microwave is not as nearly as cancerous.
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I don't understand these lines of headline. Where is that much power being consumed? I can probably generate a second video on my phone in a few seconds, and I doubt it's using much more power than usual. Maybe the generation is happening elsewhere.
If you put a Kill-a-Watt on the power cable coming into your PC at home, will you see a huge spike on power consumption when you generate something?
what app are you using to generate video on your phone?
I tried a few different free apps rather than the official apps of one of the ai vendors. I guess I assumed that most of them were doing their thinking locally but I never tried on airplane mode.
I did caveat my top level comment.
Maybe the generation is happening elsewhere.
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