[salawat]

Most of those were not built through the wholesale theft of IP at the bottom of the business model. Let's be honest here. As much as I'm an adherent of IP being an abomination, Microsoft, Google, OpenAI, et al crossed a very bright and vibrant line. One they had no small part in painting. While even the most hardcore piratical mofo could motivate themselves to avail themselves of liberties they may not necessarily be socially granted for a personal project, these companies, who were the people to make a big deal in the first place that IP should be commoditizable, took it the extra step and decided to unethically turn around, and build a business off it.

You can have a change of heart. Nobody says you can't; but you don't get to go back. In that sense, I say that guilt on usage of an AI is warranted. There was a way to get there, properly and these people have admitted the only reason these things exist is because they so broke the rules of ethics wholesale. I will not reward anyone for that, and consider any work product reliant on it as indellibly tainted.

The technology I have no issues with. The manufacturing and sourcing process I absolutely do. It was taken, not given and even worse, it isn't given back, but sold back. That's not okay. Consistency matters. If we're just going to ignore rule of law, then all I've really got left to work with is shame. And one who lifts the public good, without asking and erects a tollbooth and cash register around it, is one worthy of being shamed.