no, i'm "nitpicking" because you used an (in my view) flawed comparison to wave away criticism on gen-AI use. If the company that sells/rents tools to me is in fact "doing evil" then I (or anyone) am complicit in that evil if i just keep giving them money. You might not agree to that, but smarter people than me have written books on morals and ethics and this is a pretty basic example. Also: you are being fooled by the gen-AI companies and subsidizing their product. Anthropic for example has just made a new investment deal that will keep the company afloat for about 18 months (best guess, no one can predict long term energy prices currently) that amounts to a burn rate (including profit they make) of about 5 billion $ per month. This is not a sustainable product / business. Not to mention the fact that many large Datacenters have started to rent gas turbines generators they park outside to supply additional power. The point of all this anti gen-AI talk is to make people aware of the impact these companies are having and to do the only thing we can do to resist this development, and that is to not use it, not pay it and point out to others the problems with them.