Comment on ChatGPT 5 power consumption could be as much as eight times higher than GPT 4 — research institute estimates medium-sized GPT-5 response can consume up to 40 watt-hours of electricity

RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• ckmnstr@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Response Type is decided by ChatGPTs new routing function based on your input. So yeah. Asking it to “think long and hard”, which I have seen people advocating for to get better results recently, will trigger the thinking model and waste more resources.

  source

  • towerful@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    So instead of just saying “thank you” I now have to say “think long and hard about how much this means to me”?

    source

    • MangoCats@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      FFS, I have been using Claude to code, not only do you have to tell Claude to fix compilation errors, you have to point out when Claude says “it’s fixed” - “no, it’s not, the function you said you added is STILL missing.”

      source

      • Gumus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        You’re absolutely right!

        source
    • ckmnstr@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      If you want it to really use a lot of energy on receiving your gratitude, sure I guess^^

      source
    • T156@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Once it generates the response, there is a button you can click to make it use the reasoning model.

      Why they did it that way instead of giving users the option to just set the model that they want to use ahead of time boggles the mind. Surely it would be more efficient for them to chose a model if they want ahead of time, rather than generating something that’s going to be regenerated with the desired model instead.

      source