However if I used AI more, I would still play the same amount of video games, thus increasing the total energy use.

Then that's like writing about the evils of cars while driving a giant SUV for fun.

Do you agree with me on my other main point on reliability?

The Google AI forced on me in searches has seemed correct because every sentence has a footnote with a link to source that I usually click. The OpenAI code generation I used a year ago was brilliant. It wrote working VBScript for me which was a language I had no desire to learn. The microcontroller code for another project was also fantastic because it gave me an outline to start working with.