And as the satellite passed over Svalbard, Norway, the orbiting AI model responded over the downlink:
Blue marble below,
Data streams in silent grace,
Starlight feeds my core. ✨
Those roughly 20 tokens would cost about $0.000012 if generated through the Google Cloud API, based on Gemma 4 26B's pricing of $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens, excluding input costs.
Add in a satellite weighing perhaps 500 kg, based on the mass of SpaceX's Starlink satellites, and a retail launch price of around $7,000 per kg, and you have a very expensive haiku.
This is the most astronomically far from art as you can get.