The whole first part of the infamous "Parrots" paper is concerned with the potential negative environmental outcomes of relying/adopting large LLMs, but nobody

The whole first part of the infamous "Parrots" paper is concerned with the potential negative environmental outcomes of relying/adopting large LLMs, but nobody ever talks about that part! Many were/are rightly concerned with proof of work mining, now ontop of all that there is an even bigger incentive on a global scale to have a million high powered GPUs running all the time. And then they tell us these things will completely replace not only index-based search, but education, customer service, all document processing, etc. Even if these things can underpin a viable business, its going to still push the needle that much further into unviable planet. Which, I dont know, doesn't feel like a particularly sophisticated future to me.