You get my point. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that replacing a massively scaled $100+/year photo/video hosting service offered by the biggest multinational companies in the world will consume compute resources.
You are either consuming your own server’s resources or you’re paying Apple/Google/someone else to handle it for you.
Your mistaken point is easy to get, but you don't get the counter argument that the relevant pricing here is that of, for example, VPS, which haven't scaled as much in memory availability as your cited consumer examples, so the constraints are still there.
> will consume compute resources
This is an empty statement, the argument here is about the amount of resources and how it relates to the underlying technology.
And all this "biggest multinational scale" is just as meaningless, no specific resource requirement follows from that (maybe a big part of that $100 is exactly because of "big multi scale")
> News flash, when you query ChatGPT,
News flash, this is not chatGPT. Another news is that different models have very different memory requirements. Also, do you know that those requirements are only due to the models?
So again, your example doesn't help provide any justification.
