Initially I thought AI would be great for FOSS because suddenly open source projects could get up to speed with paid options. UIs could get better (albeit boring/soulless) with Claude Design, etc.
But then I guess someone has to pay for all of those tokens. It's "easier" to devote your time but much harder to justify spending $300/mo on contributions to open source.
So maybe some people see this almost as a donation? Hey, I paid for tokens and generated a PR - be grateful for my donation!
And then they completely disregard the fact that reviewing the generated slop becomes way too much for the contributors. They would probably have appreciated a monetary donation more.