> opting instead for gleeful mockery and scorn

This is well earned by the likes of OpenAI that is trying to convince everyone they need trillions of dollars to build fabs to build super genius AIs. These super genius AIs will replace everyone (except billionaires) and act as magic money printers (for billionaires).

Meanwhile their super genius precursor AIs make up shit and can't count letters in words while being laughably sycophantic.

There's no need to defend poor innocent megacorps trying to usher in a techno-feudal dystopia.