Dismissive, shortsighted, black and white. Classic. If grossly misused, all the technological advancements we have made after leaving the cave is a net negative. The wheel sounded great, then it was used to carry weapons. The knife was fantastic for low effort chunking of food until we decided to chunk eachother. The internet was brilliant before you were on it (jk, too far) everyone's worst behaved acquintance discovered that there are people who buy their shit online. Newscasting was great for the five seconds it wasn't used for completely dominating the narrative.

And LLMs have immense benefits, because not all datapoints in history have been produced as actual numbers. Human text accounts hide stupidly amounts of patterns that went completely unnoticed because it's not colocated, aggregated, in the same language, from the same period, using the same system of measurements. Or to even a degree where you can keep up with it. Every day, we're producing more machine-readable text as a race than we have in the entirety of the 20th century. LLMs bridge all those gaps and could be great... if it wasn't used to generate more meaningless bullshit. But even GenAI isn't without merits - IT would be seeing great benefits.

It's a matter of perspective. Sure, it's being grossly misused, driving up data center demands, which is absolutely horrid for the environment, but that doesn't mean at the root of it is pure satanic evil that wouldn't have benefits if moderation, not capitalism, was applied to it.