Imagine there's a religious cult whose beliefs you don't align with who makes a great product.
It feels very different to use a tool vs a service.
For example, a really well made rocking chair from a cult: seems fine.
But a new ranking algorithm from a cult: seems definitely not fine.
The question is: do they have power over what you think or not?
If you're using LLMs to answer questions, you have to care a lot about the bias of its creators.
If you're using LLMs to distill mechanistic code, you have to care a lot less about the bias of its creators.