Is using any with a QuerySet unoptimal?

Question

Many times, one needs to check if there is at least one element inside a QuerySet. Mostly, I use exists:

if queryset.exists():
   ...

However, I've seen colleagues using python's any function:

if any(queryset):
   ...

Is using python's any function unoptimal?

My intuition tells me that this is a similar dilemma to one between using count and len: any will iterate through the QuerySet and, therefore, will need to evaluate it. In a case where we will use the QuerySet items, this doesn't create any slowdowns. However, if we need just to check if any pieces of data that satisfy a query exist, this might load data that we do not need.