There are many documented cases of parasites being beneficial to the host in some particular situation while being harmful overall.
So your entire premise is false.
So your entire premise is false.
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yCWPkLi8wJvewPbEp/the-noncen...
Your point was that parasites give nothing back, thus AI companies can’t be seen as parasites because we get some usefulness out of them.
My only point is that argument is false, since a host can get benefits out of a parasite.
I guess that analogy would be people stop sharing their thoughts publicly, which is as likely as people stop sharing on social media, very unlikely for many reasons.