Progress is a vector.
Progress to where? We require direction as well as magnitude.
We keep making lots of progress, against ourselves.
> Why would we want that?
Like, "AI" can make visually complex patterns of moving pixels now? Great! I like making my own patterns of pixels though. I like seeing other patterns of pixels because they're made by other people; art is just a communication medium. And I don't like being unable to trust anything I see, because the cost of fabricating fake videos is effectively zero, and the mass proliferation of doing so dilutes the pool of meaning, experience, and information with empty spam lacking substance.
Congrats! You solved a very challenging technical problem. Now, why is this a good thing exactly? How does this align with what most people actually want to get out of life?