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Like you, I really want to stay positive on journalists' fundamental honesty. But at some level of carelessness and clickbaiting, it barely matters anymore.

Here's CNN's latest headline: "Sora 2 and ChatGPT are consuming so much power that OpenAI just did another 10 gigawatt deal".

So OpenAI signed a deal with Broadcom to deliver 10 GW of compute capacity (not electricity) over many years. CNN then suggestively reframes this as OpenAI basically needing access to additional power plants _right now_ just to keep the lights on for Sora 2.

Sora is a free app, with no direct revenue stream, and only 1/800th of the users of ChatGPT... and according to the headline, is being subsidized to the tune of 10 nuclear power plants. That sounds very plausible, indeed.

FWIW, Reuters/AP/Bloomberg reported correctly and factually.

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TY! Two notes:

>I presume most journalists are honest

IMHO (and I could be wrong) I presume most journalists are being driven by trying to get attention / clicks / eyeballs.

Also, I want to clarify that I appreciate everything you do not because I think it is changing the minds of any Doomers. Rather, I think (and again, I could be wrong) your biggest impact is in providing a counter to the Doomer narrative, saving a number of people from falling down that trap.

Take care.

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