> It's clear which side of that dichotomy you land on, for better or worse.

This is not a binary, you are boxing in a person you had no detailed conversation with

Not really, I just consider OpenAI to be an active part of the flow whenever anyone uses ChatGPT to "create" something. Prompting isn't creative: the actual work is being done by OpenAI as an entity, and so in my opinion, they bear some responsibility for that.