Because the alternative is admitting the main upside so far is: a few VCs and early employees get yacht money while everyone else gets a gate-kept chatbot and constant fear mongering. But hey, I guess we all have our own opinion of "upside".
And even then people prefer blaming the prediction machine instead of recognizing their situation as the logical conclusion of capitalism.
A computer used to be a person, it was a job title. They worked in giant offices where they calculated important things on paper.