Hugging Face Researchers Warn AI-Generated Video Consumes Much More Power Than Expected (futurism.com)
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- News link: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/09/27/0249201/hugging-face-researchers-warn-ai-generated-video-consumes-much-more-power-than-expected
- Source link: https://futurism.com/future-society/ai-power-usage-text-to-video-generator
> As detailed [1]in a new paper , researchers from the open-source AI platform Hugging Face found that the energy demands of text-to-video generators quadruple when the length of a generated video doubles — indicating that the power required for increasingly sophisticated generations doesn't scale linearly. For instance, a six-second AI video clip consumes four times as much energy as a three-second clip.
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> "These findings highlight both the structural inefficiency of current video diffusion pipelines and the urgent need for efficiency-oriented design," the researchers concluded in their paper... Fortunately, there are ways to slim down those demands, including intelligent caching, the reusing of existing AI generations, and " [2]pruning ," meaning the sifting out of inefficient examples from training datasets.
The Hugging Face researchers gave their paper a cheeky title. " [3]Video Killed the Energy Budget : Characterizing the Latency and Power Regimes of Open Text-to-Video Mode."
[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.19222
[2] https://www.willowtreeapps.com/craft/dataset-pruning-for-intent-classification
[3] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.19222
Bet they knew already knew that and... (Score:2)
thought "our AI can fix this"
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The AI-slop-vendors must have known it given that the default length of videos seems to be around the 5s mark, with charges increasing steeply once you go past that point.
Youtube now with "AI short videos"... (Score:2)
... at the press of a button. See [1]here how Youtube just turbo-charged the AI-slop-video generation [youtube.com]... and nothing but a waste of time and energy will result.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6yQZpOVe-A
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YouTube Shorts were already enough of a waste of energy before they added AI.
Propaganda (Score:3)
Just fyi, the real reason for high electricity prices is not due to AI and data centers. Itâ(TM)s due to middleman that demand a very high return every year.
High prices could be fixed immediately if state governments mandated a lower return on this and had more sane policies around energy. Instead, blaming AI and data centers is a red herring and it just keeps feeding oligarchs tons of cash on the backs of everyone else.
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yep no worse then crypto running running tons of gpus at full power all the time.
415 Wh (Score:2)
From the paper:
> WAN2.1-T2V-14B consumes over 415 Wh
So, generate slop with this model for a whole hour and it uses 415 watts of power? What they don't seem to mention - that I could find - is how many minutes of slop they generated in that hour of use.
To me, a pure Watts/Slop metric would be more useful, and far more compelling. To that end, I propose the Zuck as a measurement to encapsulate watts/slop-second. If a 10 second video takes 10 real minutes at 415Wh then that's 69 watts or 6.9 Zucks of power (a
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I want an end-to-end measurement of slop wattage. From mining to transporting to the ham sandwich of the "engineer" who types in the prompt that generates prompts that generate the slop.
Why isn't California smacking down AI? (Score:2)
They claim to lead the energy efficiency and planet saving causes - but they aren't doing a thing about AI as it undoes in 1 year any planet saving gains from everything California has done for decades?
Burn the Earth (Score:3)
But I want to burn the Earth to a cinder so I can make AI images of Goth girls with 3 boobs!!
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AI generated political slop will be the end of us all.
Re: Burn the Earth (Score:3)
There is life beyond the digital world. Come on, put on those shoes, take a walk. It will be boring at first.
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slashdot is about the extent of my social media experience. But I don't represent most people.
AI Buggles (Score:3)
"Video killed the planet this far..."
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I'm generally against activities that worsen climate change and against the use of AI. But you pose a very convincing argument.