Again, you're just making assumptions.

They may or may not be accurate assumptions, but if they change your decision making to instead shop at mega-corp instead of local, they're ultimately harmful assumptions imo.

A small business with an AI poster is still better than a big business with an AI poster.

And you czn be sure those big businesses are using way more AI

My reasoning was that when you buy from a big business, then 100% of what you spend goes there, while less than 100% of your spending go to big business if you buy from a small business that supports big businesses itself.

It doesn't make sense to compare the total amount a small business contributes to a big business with the total amount an individual person contributes, unless you have some further factors you think I have failed to take into account.

You get to pick the hill that you die on, but what I am saying is even if they don't use AI - they still use bookkeeping software, they still file taxes, they still order supplies, they have an email, website and someplace they store documents.

So AI can be your hill that is fine, but you are still picking the lesser evil in other ways. As you said, "I guess if you don't see your money directly go to OpenAI, it helps you sleep at night better. Out of sight, out of mind, as they say."

You helped make that happen by walking away from small shop and walking directly to a corporation.