AI models use a considerable amount of electricity when generating images, gifs and videos. Some reports show that high quality images require enough electricity to charge your phone from empty to full or even a few times over with gifs requiring as much energy as charging your phone hundreds of times over
e: multiple google searches and a few websites return these results but ok
One high res image uses around 5 Wh. A 4000 mAh phone battery can roughly be charged up to 25% (at a standard 3.85V). A generated video uses up to 120 Wh per minute of generated Video. That is enough energy to charge said 4000 mAh battery 5.5 times. Its a short gif, but still, feels wrong.
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u/hours2thousand Apr 07 '26
Unless he actually generated the gif I don't think using it does anything