Freedom is being able to decide where I get my things done. I can choose to bake bread at home in my own personal oven, and sometimes I do. Or I can choose to b

Freedom is being able to decide where I get my things done. I can choose to bake bread at home in my own personal oven, and sometimes I do. Or I can choose to buy bread from a bakery. The act of buying bakery made bread is not, in itself, an unethical decision. It's a task that I'm outsourcing to someone else - which is how an economy works. Ethics come in when discussing how the bakery makes their bread vs my expectations. If they're cutting sawdust into their flour, then we might have an issue. I have the exact example problem mentioned: translation services. In my specific case, I'm helping research a lot of old, handwritten documents in my non-native language. Turns out LLMs are surprisingly good at language and are rather useful for this. I've toyed with running them on my laptop, but the current state of the art is just a bit better and runs faster on someone else's server. In deciding whether to do this job locally or on a SASS, I'm weighing a number of factors. But whether using a SASS, at all, is 'doing me wrong' is not one of them.