No LLM use is benign. The effects on the environment, the internet, and society are real, and that cannot be ignored.

You can make the argument that in some cases it is justified, e.g.: for scientific research.

No.

If your home IP does not change often, you can use a dynamic DNS service. But your services will be unavailable from the time that your IP changes and the time the DNS record is updated and the cached responses expire.

There were probably also people who voted for “yes AI” who would have voted for “a little bit of ai when I explicitly ask for it” if they had the option.

Volkswagen, Ford, UBS, and IBM are all doing pretty well.