Report: 55% of China's AI compute goes to producing short dramas and videos
omoril0ver · reddit · 2026-10-21
A report claims that 55% of China's AI computing power is being used to produce short dramas and short-form video content. The poster notes a surge of such AI-generated videos appearing on YouTube lately, which lines up with the figure. If accurate, it suggests the single biggest consumer of AI compute in China is mass-produced video content rather than chat or coding workloads.
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