I’m looking to get my first subscription of a machine learning model and I’ve been using POE for a while but I’m not sure if paying for it would be better than paying for a GPT subscription. I almost never use them to generate images, mostly for help with my business and some programming.

I also want my wife to be able to use the same account when I start paying for it.

I’m not sure what the benefits of each are and which would outweigh.

  • three
    21·
    17 hours ago

    You should also consider the environmental impact you are having by using generative AI.

    At 2.9 watt-hours (Wh) per ChatGPT request, AI queries are estimated to require 10 times the electricity of traditional Google queries, which use about 0.3 Wh each.

    Powering Intelligence: Analyzing Artificial Intelligence and Data Center Energy Consumption

    Take a moment to think about that. What is your carbon footprint? How much water are you using? Not whether one service is better than another, but whether it’s fair to everyone else on the planet for you to keep using this service.

    • intensely_human
      21·
      9 hours ago

      Consider the cost of reading a book with your 100-watt bulb, which uses 100 watt-hours per hour. Is it really worth it to read that book?

      • coaxil
        1·
        9 hours ago

        Who the heck uses that much power for lighting anymore?

      • three
        1·
        9 hours ago

        The lamp in my room doesn’t use hundreds of millions of gallons of water to cool itself.

    • flashgnash
      1·
      11 hours ago

      There have definitely been problems chatgpt has solved in one try that would’ve taken multiple Google searches and multiple page loads stemming from that