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"I've cut down a forest for you, now here are your toothpicks. You have to use them otherwise that forest was cut down for nothing. You should be grateful. That matchstick factory over there cut down two forests last week."
Your analogy is quite apt actually. You are blaming people for using toothpicks and matches while they are completely irrelevant to deforestation, accounting for (rounded) 0.0% of deforestation worldwide. Interestingly, beef production is the worst issue here, accounting for ~40%.
In a similar way, all AI usage, including the much more wasteful video genAI, is accounting for ~1-2% of energy use worldwide, on the same order of magnitude as YouTube. Meanwhile personal cars is like 20%
lookit, intellekshual word twisting and lying at the same time... what does anyone else think about me pointing out how they ignored the basic premise of the qUiTe ApT analogy? waste of my time or not?
Talk about missing the forest for the trees.
In the next 2 years, energy usage of Youtube will largely stay stable, while energy usage of LLMs is projected to keep increasing exponentially.