Agreed, and therefore an AI will always use more. As they required all of us, doing shit this big, for this long, to function. So, since each of us required a whole civilization to get to this moment, we're back to where we started, crossing off every externality and only counting direct power usage for the task at hand.

Humans living is the whole point of civilization, though. We don't need the LLM to pay for the techbro carbon footprint or olichsrch child abuse, so we should similarly exclude the human's base sustensnce and survival from their budget.

You can include the human writer's coffee, music, and writing snacks / cigarettes.