The same is true for overtaking in congested traffic on any type of road. There will be someone passing you on the highway by weaving through traffic, tailgating, honking, … And then 5 minutes later you take your exit and that same nutter is standing still 3 cars ahead of you. Being an aggressive dick in traffic is totally not worth it.

“intentionally using low-quality AI output in their work without fixing it”

This reads like victim blaming or scapegoating. That ai company makes shoddy software that outputs faulty results, users output faulty results when using that software, and now the ai company blames the users for outputting faulty results. That some (but likely not all) users know that the results are faulty, doesn’t change that the software itself is faulty.