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This article (https://www.theverge.com/tldr/915176/nft-metaverse-ai-weirdos) makes a very correct and important point:

Within recent memory, people who made software and hardware understood their job was to serve their customer. [...] But at some point following the financial crisis, would-be entrepreneurs got it into their heads that their job was to invent the future, and consumers’ job was to go along with that invented future.

The discussion around AI is not the first instance of this pattern, but it is where this mindset is taken to its most extreme form.