The environmental impact problem with AI is the land, water, energy use, and pollution caused by the data centers and power plants being built for it, not the electricity cost of sending a prompt to a chatbot. So this isn’t really an unpopular opinion, it’s a misunderstanding of reality.
The environmental impact problem with AI is the land, water, energy use, and pollution caused by the data centers and power plants being built for it, not the electricity cost of sending a prompt to a chatbot. So this isn’t really an unpopular opinion, it’s a misunderstanding of reality.