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Generative AI burns more energy on non-English text

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Generative AI burns more energy on non-English text
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When processing and producing non-English text, generative AI burns more energy and sometimes provides less accurate answers, potentially reinforcing existing global inequalities, according to researchers.
The energy disparity is greatest in languages that don’t use Latin script and have less digital content available for training. AI models could use 1.4 to 180 times more energy to generate non-English text, with most Western European languages coming in at twice the energy expenditure or

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