Simply delivering what the market wants. OpenAI is a business, they're not curing cancer, they're making money.
We could have solved so many problems in people's day to day using the money invested into this shit, improved standards of living considerably. Instead we're building more data centers to finish broiling the earth so that share prices go up a quarter of a point.
Only power and influence matter. Anything else is just noise excuses and complaints.
If you care so much figure it out.
The means to get power corrupts any who would wield it. Its is all one big great race to the top of an anthill? Wouldn't it be nicer if you could live in a world where your neighbor was doing well also? Zero sum mindsets lead to zero sum worlds.
Sheesh, so pessimistic... we're building data centers to solve challenging problems! Look into protein folding and such