LLM discussion is filled with constant fearmongering by people not educated (and too lazy to research) the topic that dilutes public perception of the more serious ethical issues with generative ai.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-water-usage
https://news.mit.edu/2025/explained-generative-ai-environmental-impact-0117
A lot of reputable sources fail to explain any actual connection between the water use of ai data centers and environmental damage or impact. Instead, it mostly only strains local municipalities which i guess might lead to outages though i feel like it probably just drives prices up. The water problem is suuuuuper overblown and filled with misinformation.
Most of the environmental damage caused by ai is from the really obvious energy use (Most of this is actually from training ai, not using them, btw). People try to say this also causes a water strain which kinda goes to show the lengths people go to stretch this fake issue, when its really just that using so much fucking energy is pumping our atmosphere with fossil fuel emissions. Which is obviously really bad. This is also on top of how all the production costs for the hardware its all running on also causes real environmental damage, as well as drives prices up for everyday people.
This is *also* on top of the more reasonable ethical/moral outrage towards generative ai, such as the blatant disregard for intellectual property law (the same law that, of course, is used to abuse indie creators, these megacorps are immune to with their hallucination machines) and their complete enshittification of the modern internet. And also the shit in OP's screenshot. If you don't understand such a complex issue you should really stay out of it.
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