> You're blind to all the negative side effects

I didn't comment on negative effects one way or the other.

Most of the problems you point out are enabled and motivated by conflict of interest business models. I.e. surveillance that enables and incentivizes targeted ads, targeted manipulation, and addictive media.

Parasitical, privacy violating and dark pattern business models are like bad security. We can't afford them any more. AI is going to make that already very clear point clearer and clearer ... until maybe people wake up and legislate those types of businesses away.

Blaming AI (for those kinds of problems) won't achieve anything. As with any tool, AI is just getting more effective. Might as well blame faster processors too.

And it gives the actual culprits, the people who profit from poison, a pass and cover.

Profitable, scalable, conflicts of interest are poison.