@simon I think a big problem with AI is that it's being forced upon us at a time when our polution should be decreasing, and should have been for many years.

And now, instead of it, we've figured out a new way to burn fossil fuels for something we never needed in the first place. (Or at best, marginally needed, I mean, we already had artists and notulists etc).

So I see this argument (of consumption by LLM) as a generic system critique. Just like we need to get rid of our plastic dependency, but if you measure it per person per packaged piece of candy: is super small.