πŸ’­ A ChatGPT prompt equals about 5.1 seconds of Netflix ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ !https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/29/chatgpt-netflix Date: December 1, 2025 A ChatGPT prompt equals about 5.1 seconds of Netflix In June 2025 Sam Altman claimed about ChatGPT that "the average query uses about 0.34 watt-hours". In March 2020 George Kamiya of the International Energy Agency estimated that "streaming a … Simon Willison’s Weblog Β· simonwillison.net This feels very promising for the future as we enter a world that is more and more dependent on AI that inference is so cheap. I did not understand the scale to how much cheaper inference is compared to training. As we get better with training I imagine this gets significantly better as well. I know they all claim to be profitable on inference, but scrolling through Simon’s feed here you see several articles on the stark difference. NOTE β”‚ This post is a thought </thoughts/>. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts </tags/thoughts/>