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ChatGPT using up at home bandwidth?
Posted on 7/15/25 at 1:08 pm
Posted on 7/15/25 at 1:08 pm
Wife says several of her friends that play around with a lot it are being hit with Internet overage charges from their internet providers.
How does that work? It never occurred to me, and I doubt most people, that using AI eats up your Internet usage.
How does that work? It never occurred to me, and I doubt most people, that using AI eats up your Internet usage.
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Posted on 7/15/25 at 1:22 pm to TigerGman
Images and video could crush low limits.
Posted on 7/15/25 at 1:32 pm to TigerGman
To put it in perspective, a 1g internet connection could eat up about $100 per second in AI compute resources if all that data was input and output tokens.
So, no.
Edit: Actually up to $1000 per second though $100 is more reasonable. And from what I understand, most “unlimited” $20/month AI plans cut you off around $300 worth of use.
So, no.
Edit: Actually up to $1000 per second though $100 is more reasonable. And from what I understand, most “unlimited” $20/month AI plans cut you off around $300 worth of use.
This post was edited on 7/15/25 at 3:11 pm
Posted on 7/15/25 at 9:39 pm to TigerGman
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doubt most people, that using AI eats up your Internet usage.
Using the Internet eats up your internet usage. They are just repeating shite they saw on social media, probably with people on MetroPCS being stunned that you use more data trying to order Popeyes through Grok than using the Popeyes app.
Posted on 7/16/25 at 5:55 am to LemmyLives
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Using the Internet eats up your internet usage. They are just repeating shite they saw on social media, probably with people on MetroPCS being stunned that you use more data trying to order Popeyes through Grok than using the Popeyes app.
Heh yeah. Makes sense. I was like WTF? how can that be?
Posted on 7/16/25 at 7:48 am to TigerGman
people dumb enough to use AI services are probably also unplanned botnet hosts.
Posted on 7/17/25 at 9:17 am to TigerGman
Requests and responses to ChatGPT are basically just a JSON object of system messages and chat history, each request is probably about the size or smaller than an email including the headers.
Only common way to use up your internet like that are streaming video/audio or downloading large files.
Only common way to use up your internet like that are streaming video/audio or downloading large files.
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