I have complicated opinions about all of this! Hence my contradicting titles in attached screenshots from https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/31/llms-in-2024/#the-environmental-impact-got-better
The one opinion I'll stick by is that telling someone "every time you run a ChatGPT prompt you're using engi in mentally irresponsible amounts of energy" is misleading
(People really do say that)