I'm a Bay Area startup alumni, so closer to the actual VC scene than most on here, and all the actual successful founders I know have a pretty strong belief in

I'm a Bay Area startup alumni, so closer to the actual VC scene than most on here, and all the actual successful founders I know have a pretty strong belief in the good that their products will bring, even if they usually overstate the likely impacts quite a bit. "Move fast and break stuff" != "...and run people over in the process". Are there greedy a-holes in every space? Of course. But if you think that's the default mindset at startups, I don't feel like you're going to have much success in the space. Do I think OpenAI probably thinks that their work is less impactful to Steven King's sales than he is claiming? Absolutely. Do I think they're lying to themselves about the actual negative impacts of their work because they think their product is really cool and has so many potential uses? Absolutely. Do I think they secretly all just want to be the guy with the boot, crushing artists' livelihoods and pushing for regulatory capture, like you seem to be implying they (and others here) are? No.