@simon yes, if it is at all afforded to you by your society, you should avoid doing things that consume energy up until the point where we've balanced our energy use budget with the earths resources. If you do not personally have that ability, it's very understandable: collective energy use requires collective efforts to reduce usage. Change must be pressed for at the societal level.
That said, it is absurd and ridiculous to compare the necessity to heat your home to the vanity of consuming that power in the form of a fancy lying-to-you machine is so ridiculous I can't believe I actually have to say it. I have never used one of these products and I'm still alive and well.
@scott "I have never used one of these products and I'm still alive and well"
Then it's understandable that you wouldn't see why I value them more than an international flight!
I use them for a lot of things, some of it dumb but most of it genuinely useful https://simonwillison.net/series/using-llms/