At some point during a conversation, ChatGPT gave me a link to a catalog. The chat went on.

Not too long after, I accidentally clicked away and lost the link.

The noble thing would’ve been to scroll back, maybe use the search bar or Ctrl+F and find it myself.

But I didn’t.

Prompt: “please remind me of the catalog link that you provided me above”

As the link reappeared on my screen, I saw a montage of headlines flash through my mind. The energy cost of LLM queries, the server racks, the carbon emissions. And here I was, using a billion-parameter model to avoid a scroll.

The realization that I have fallen prey to this new layer of GPT-induced laziness dawned upon me…

I’m sorry.