Me: prompts a frontier LLM one time to do 30 minutes of my work in 45 seconds

Randos on the internet: "omg you're killing the planet"

Me, who once left a Minecraft technic modpack game running in the background while I had a 2hr goon session, consuming orders of magnitude more power for nothing productive:

Yeah, there are lots of reasons to hate AI, and resource consumption is absolutely one of them; but people seem to miss the forest for the trees when it comes to exactly what parts are problematic