alt Hacker News> The point is that people FEEL they benefit. THAT’S the market for many things.
I don't disagree, but this also doesn't mean that those things are intrinsically good and then we should all pursuit them because that's what the market wants. And that was what I was pushing against, this idea that since 800M people are using GPT then we should all be ok doing AI work because that's what the market is demanding.
Its not that it is intrinsically good but that a lot of people consuming things from their own agency has to mean something. You coming in the middle and suggesting you know better than them is strange.
When billions of people watch football, my first instinct is not to decry football as a problem in society. I acknowledge with humility that though I don't enjoy it, there is something to the activity that makes people watch it.