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I'm not gonna sit here and argue about whether it's ok to eat meat or not. the point is that supporting cloud-based AI is taking up a ton of resources and isn't providing much benefit for it compared to local AI. not sure why you took it in that direction in the first place, but using up nearly all of our ability to manufacture computer parts, large areas of land, lots of electricity, and lots of clean water, all for barely any benefit, is much worse in terms of resource usage (again, not going to argue about the morality of meat here) than sustaining cattle.
I’m not saying that all that stuff is good, I’m saying that focusing on the environment aspect is weird when the environmental aspect is minuscule compared to all of the other stuff we do.
The other factors you mentioned such as increasing RAM prices are pretty much exclusive to ai and thus a better argument against it. Most people have computers or want a computer, most people have a phone, and so on