Snarky comment I know, but I believe that is some truth to it. We SOftware Engineers are equally "being used", especially the Open Source contributors.
I personally only use open weights model for my business stuff. I just refuse to feed the machine with my secrets. However, I think there is no way back. My accountant happily told me that he is using Claude to organize his cases. To do so, Claude reads his emails, customer correspondance etc. So yeah. ANthropic might know now my financial details, even though i NEVER ever used Claude myself...
It's just fucked. And the worst thing is that my accountant didn't mind. Time to find a new one I guess. Someone with a typewriter.
P.S. I am not Anti-AI. Really not. I have an AI startup and I use AI everyday. Its a love-hate relationship. AI usage has serious risk, and one is that we all train the AIs to put ourselves out of a job.