I've thought since the beginning of all of this that the biggest mistake was calling all of these LLMs and other tools that they smashed together "AI". It's misleading and ruins the reputation of all of the tools. If someone had made a coding tool that ONLY did what "AI" does with coding, no one would give a shit. But now because an LLM spelled "Strawberry" with too many "r's" well that means it's all slop and it's all shit.

As for the people throwing shade for ethics, EVERYONE breaks their ethics for consumption and EVERYONE has their justifications. I'm not saying that environmental issues aren't important, they very much are, but giving others shit for their choices when half of your clothing and your phone partly relies on slave labor and stripping of the environment weakens your attempt. It's easy to sit on a high horse and judge others for their use of AI. It's much more difficult to understand the nuances of why they do. Just like you would want someone else to try to understand the nuances of why your shoes cost $150 and the 9 year old who made them was only paid 2 cents.

The point that I'm trying to make here, is that you can complain about AI without shitting on others.