I used to run GenAI image generators on my own hardware, and I 200% agree with your stance. Literally wound up selling my RTX 4090 to get the dealer to move out of the house. I'm better off now, but can't ever really own a GPU again without opening myself back up to that. Sigh...

It does literally make it not gambling though, which is what's betting discussed.

It also kind of breaks the whole argument that they're designed to be addictive in order to make you spend more on tokens.