Your phone contains rare earth minerals that may have been mined through child labour. Your shirts and shoes undoubtedly were made by a company that benefits from forced labour in SE Asia. To try to insist that every single tool we use be completely free of ethical encumbrance is a very high bar.
Now, we can and should talk reparations & compensation. But I don't think unilateral abstention actually is going to result in reparations or compensation.
I doubt the robber barons behind genAI have any intention of offering reparations or compensation. They're buying political influence wherever they can to avoid that. Not to mention fighting all attempts to get them to divulge what's in their training data.
Then let the bar *be* that high. None of the current genAI LLMs need to exist, whataboutisms won't change that.
Consider the sheer number of people harmed by AI companies' theft of the world's intellectual property. There's no comparison in terms of impact, and the theft of IP is ongoing and worldwide. I'm against forced and child labor and won't buy products made that way. You know genAI is unethical.