[john_strinlai]

revealed preference theory is typically applied to individuals or single decision-making units like a household, rather than worldwide aggregate market behavior.

in any case, its not really that complicated in this case.

- the ai companies have a billion active users and billions of dollars in revenue.

- a poll comes back with 30% of respondents saying they are angry about ai.

so, why do the ai companies keep doing ai things despite ~30% of people not liking ai? well, its because they are making billions of dollars in revenue from their billion users. from the ai company's perspective, it would be madness not to keep shoving ai everywhere.

[unknownfuture]

The same could be said for hard drugs.

It can be simultaneously true that a large part of the public objects to a thing while the market generates profits from that very thing.

Of course the answer is for governments to step in as, as you point out, the AI-related companies are behaving as rational actors given their incentive structure.

[rrix2]

and so it was that the tail continued to wag the dog....