Comment by iLoveOncall

> Those are compute credits that are directly spent on the experiment itself.

You're extrapolating, it's not saying this anywhere.

> It's no more "compensation" than a chemistry researcher being "compensated" with test tubes.

Yes, that's compensation too. Thanks for contributing another example. Here's another one: it's no more compensation than a software engineer being compensated with a new computer.

Actually the situation here is way worse than your example. Unless the chemistry researcher is commissioned by Big Test Tube Corp. to conduct research on the outcome of using their test tubes, there's no conflict of interest here. But there is an obvious conflict of interest on AI research being financed by credits given by AI companies to use their own AI tools.