Every additional second you spend showering uses enough water for 40 ChatGPT prompts. It’s okay to accidentally go one second over the optimal shower time (or minutes, even!). That’s in some way “useless” because it’s not helping you meet your goal of getting clean, but it’s such a small amount of water that you shouldn’t stress over it.
— Source: Why using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment - a cheat sheet by Andy Masley.
Me, I don’t worry much about all this. Maybe I should, but I don’t. There are countless of ways to save environment. One of the most obvious, don’t take that car ride. Don’t eat meat. Don’t … well, there are quite many things to do — or rather not do — to save energy.
I don’t believe my prompt eats a lot of energy. Training of LLMs does that. If I’ll stop using LLMs altogether, will the companies stop training their LLMs? I think they won’t. If everyone would stop using LLMs? I believe they will stop training their LLMs. But will everyone stop using them? To me, it feels like the genie that you won’t pack back into the lamp.