You can justify any manner of unethical behavior if your bar for ethics is "they're making a profit"

If they are making a profit.

But that's right, the side effect is that it reduced friction. The most benefit I get from LLMs when I treat them as search engines.

>If they're making a profit, it means they're providing a value to customers.

Like Alaric, Temujin, Teach, and Burham!