> He does not appear to have any issues that his thought processes are logged by servers owned by a multi-billion dollar company.

His job is publishing his thoughts. They're not going to a single company, but everyone. If he gets results faster, we all get to see his thought process faster. Ideally, chatgpt would be familiar with everything coming from researchers like him.

> constantly singing the praises of specifically ChatGPT and now CoPilot

Chatgpt is mentioned just once and only as a "such as" example.