That's a bit different. Advertising is like a race to the bottom, where everybody to survive takes part. You can do that meanwhile wish that it could somehow not be that way. Same with environmental issues.

The GP comment by contrast is about hypocrisy. I personally found it funny that I didn't ever read about (or consider) copyright violations of deep learning until they tried to do it with code :-)

Of course programmers would find the problem with AI as soon as it exploited them.