Vegetarians are still carnists and it doesn’t give you any additional credibility, no. Less in my eyes on the ethical front.

It’s not a vaguely related topic. It’s the same one, avoidable purchases which support environmental destruction. If it’s the environmental destruction that concerns you I’d hope you’d cut out the #1 avoidable cause before getting on a pedestal. Eating animals provides no benefits whereas using AI does, as evident from that Linux game thingie developer who got dogpilled on here the other day for saying he used ai to help him get over burnout.