I went on a bit of a dive trying to find this out. Listening to Lemmy you'd believe a single text query burns 1,000 trees.
The "microwave for an hour" line comes from this article. It attributes it to Sasha Luccioni/Code Carbon, which monitored the power usage of a computer while it created a video with "CogVideoX" (not Sora).
So OP isn't exactly right but unfortunately we don't have much better to go off. I'm inclined to believe Sora would be much better than that. A surprising amount of news articles all eventually lead back to Sasha Luccioni.
Recently had an issue where I deployed something with Docker but it wasn't working properly for a few people in the business. It turned out to be the people who installed Docker with Snap. The main reason to use Docker is so that it works the same across different OSs and setups, but Snap managed to come along and ruin that.
I applied for them once. Went through multiple rounds of bullshit, to just be turned down without giving me a reason or any feedback. One of the rounds was answering a list of inane questions such as "what would your highschool friends say about you?". Never again.
There's a lesson I learnt from playing team games: If your teammate makes a bad call that you disagree with, you should still follow them 100%. Going all-in on a questionable decision is almost always better than second guessing each other.
I think it applies here, and it's why right wingers and religions are so effective. They don't care if their arguments are flawed or their leader is a rapist, they're jumping into that fight every time.
I went on a bit of a dive trying to find this out. Listening to Lemmy you'd believe a single text query burns 1,000 trees.
The "microwave for an hour" line comes from this article. It attributes it to Sasha Luccioni/Code Carbon, which monitored the power usage of a computer while it created a video with "CogVideoX" (not Sora).
So OP isn't exactly right but unfortunately we don't have much better to go off. I'm inclined to believe Sora would be much better than that. A surprising amount of news articles all eventually lead back to Sasha Luccioni.