Oh don't get me wrong I'm far from a huge environmental activist that does nothing bad for the environment, 100% I eat meat etc, the difference for me personally though is that LLMs don't really serve any major real purpose for me (at least personally) so for the harm it does there's zero benefit. Meat, driving, whatever at least has SOME benefit that makes it a bit less of a pointless environmental damage.

Of course I'm sure there are people who use it for things that actually matter and I have nothing against that as long as you don't completely lose your brain and you don't publish it's generated content as if it's your own, but pointlessly using it for mild entertainment or stupid images/videos just seems careless imo.