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This is a good take. For some queries you'd spend hours browsing and reading yourself, which in turn would cost probably much more power if you consider my desktop setup with a tower and big monitor as well as my own time and energy.

It's worth considering that the convenience will mean this will be done more often, so a straight comparison won't be correct. Just consider how many emails we send compared to letters sent at the peak of their use.

How many calories do you burn if you write it by hand? And how does that translate to environmental impact? Also you still have to “hand edit” ChatGPT generated stuff, so what you’re saying is the environmental impact is even greater than the article suggests (have to account for those extra calories)

> You need to also consider the energy use of the activity that is replaced.

Jevons Paradox directly contradicts this, replacing an activity with more efficient means doesn't correlate to a decrease in resource consumption.