The Ethics Theater of AI: Why Switching From ChatGPT to Claude Changes Less Than You Think

When a tech company draws a moral line, follow the money first — and ask questions later. Because the uncomfortable truth is that every major AI company today sits inside the same political and economic ecosystem — one deeply intertwined with governments, military contracts, and national security interests. Welcome to late-stage capitalism. And/or techno-feudalism. Switching chatbots may change the interface. And that uneasy feeling in your gut. It hardly changes the system.