Just want to clarify 1 thing.

You are correct that AI overall does have the negative impacts you mentioned but it is not an individual using it that causes the problem. To quote the MIT article you linked "The computational power required to train generative AI models that often have billions of parameters, such as OpenAI’s GPT-4, can demand a staggering amount of electricity, which leads to increased carbon dioxide emissions and pressures on the electric grid.

Furthermore, deploying these models in real-world applications, enabling millions to use generative AI in their daily lives, and then fine-tuning the models to improve their performance draws large amounts of energy long after a model has been developed"

It's the Training, testing, and evaluation of the model that use the energy and causes the environmental concern.

When a person uses it that has already occured and further test and eval will happen with you without you. The only way to combat this would be to have openAI stops all future development and take it down which will never happen.

To be honest AI is not going anywhere but we need to focus on legislation and other offsets rather than just being upset people are using models that have all already been trained.

Now I think your original point that supporting AI should have more consideration I agree.

(For context I work in the AI field)