> Its the reverse. Most businesses exist to serve consumer needs. The state comes in and tries to regulate because of possible externalities caused by the busin

> Its the reverse. Most businesses exist to serve consumer needs. The state comes in and tries to regulate because of possible externalities caused by the business. I agree, I should have phrased it as "big business" instead of just business, it's my mistake to not have been clear about that. > The fact that businesses serve real demand of consumers means that most businesses don't go twards bad or show no empathy. It is in their interest to please the consumers. Ultimately the way you might see it is ideological. Which leads me to this point, where I believe a lot of smaller to medium-sized businesses do need to provide good products for consumers to keep their edge. Where this starts to frail is when a business is too big, too detached from any controls, and instead starts to be the tail wagging the dog. > The pushback against AI crucially misses the point that people actually want to use AI and their actual preference is such. What the left does here is assume (like you did) that by default, AI companies are bad and require regulation and pushback and they do it to an extent that is detrimental for everyone except the elites. I don't disagree that people actually want to use AI, I do it and the tools have a lot of value. I disagree that big AI companies are not going to turn "bad" when given enough power, and I didn't mention regulation at all at this point, I said "caution, and planning". > One might ask why? Why is it that the left wants, as a reaction, to curtail AI? It is ideological - assuming all businesses are bad by default. And also status quo preservation. It's ideological, and dogmatic, which is why I disagree with the current position of the left for pushing back extremely without giving other avenues on how to develop it. I don't agree at all with pushing back without taking into account the reality: these tools are here to stay, their uses are still being discovered, we will settle into a new reality.