The technology is quite impressive and useful, I use ChatGPT myself so it’s not that I’m against it on principle or resent people using it. I am just rubbed the wrong way by the sort of hypocrisy of the devs of making a proprietary system using public data.
You see it with something like Midjourney/Diffusion too, which used all these artists’ work to create their model, but then monetize that product in such a way that those very artists would be charged to use the service they are arguably more key to the success of than just the devs alone.
I’m wary more of tech bros and Silicon Valley than the tech itself or the free sharing of information for collaborative tech. I would much prefer that ChatGPT (including ChatGPT 4 access) be something akin to Wikipedia that is firstly concerned with providing humanity a service for its own sake. If we lived in a society less focused on exploitation of human beings as a resource and where one constantly has to constantly do battle to keep one’s privacy being violated, I would be more open to systematic use of my data and work for the edification of everyone together.