Text renderer, whatever. Doesn't matter how you think of them, they are very interesting technology that is being misused and misconstrued in the name of something that has nothing to do with technology: political economy.
The greatest trick the rich ever pulled was making us think that the economy is about technology, and not politics.
Sure, politics and economics are involved - but why can’t technology also play an important role?
None of this AI political economy stuff was relevant in 2015 because necessary technological breakthroughs had not yet been made.