Making the argument open source is the answer is an agenda of making your competition spin wheels.
To say they're better than the compute that OpenAI or Google are throwing at the problem is just plain wrong.
I left the ad industry the moment I realised my skills and talents are better used informing people than lying to them.
This thread is not at all comparing the ethical issues of AI with local anything. You're conflating your solution with another problem.
It doesn't matter how fancy your engineering is and how much money you have if you're too stupid to build the right product.
As for this being written nonsense, that's the sort of thing someone who couldn't find an easy way to win an argument and was bitter about the fact would say.