alt Hacker NewsYou mean the net benefit in widespread access to LLMs?
I get the impression there's no answer here that would satisfy you, but personally I'm excited about regular people being able to automate tedious things in their lives without having to spend 6+ months learning to program first.
And being able to enrich their lives with access to as much world knowledge as possible via a system that can translate that knowledge into whatever language and terminology makes the most sense to them.
“I'm excited about regular people being able to automate tedious things in their lives without having to spend 6+ months learning to program first.”
Bring the implicit and explicit costs to date into your analysis and you should quickly realise none of this makes sense from a societal standpoint.
Also you seem to be living in a bubble - the average person doesn’t care about automating anything!