Only 17%? I'd say driving down the price of AI helps at least 95% of the world's population. It certainly helps me.
17% is the approximate population of Earth in China. I was using a simple example as a counter to the anglocentric view the parent poster was expressing by trying to paint China as a villain.
I assume 17% is roughly the percentage of people that use LLMs globally (the numbers vary between 15 and 20 percent).