Legit, here are some:

• Red herring fallacy. This distracts from the fact it is true: generative AI uses a lot of power and water for things no one ASKED for. AI could at least be quasi-tolerable if it was 100% optional. How much electricity would be saved if Google didn’t make AI overview mandatory. Also, how much would it save if AI slop wasn’t the priority?

• Half of these things are just being an assoomer. What if the guy criticizing AI’s wastefulness has made an effort to reduce reuse etc in other parts of their life? This is a gotcha.

• They forget that many software engineers who made their precious treat printers are also concerned about how much power it uses. The whole principle of engineering is how to do the most with less. There’s a fucking patent on ways to reduce Bitcoin’s power use.

• Again. Most people didn’t ask for it, this is only liked by fart-sniffers. In a sense, it’s a Republican prius.