That doesn't mean that the good and bad things are equitably distributed, that the good and bad things happen at the same time, or that the bad outweighs the good. All three issues are at play here: The benefits are likely to disproportionately help the rich and the pain is likely to disproportionately help the poor. New prosperity is likely to come too late for the people whose lives are being disrupted. It seems likely that the benefits of culture being consumed by AI slop outweighs the benefits (I'd like to be more detailed, but honeslty it isn't completely clear what the benefits are).

fire is a must have to keep you alive, and an almost-must-have to eat.

AI gets me poorly researched and cited explanations, boilerplate code, and poorly formatted powerpoint slides.

If fire was invented today, it would be a subscription

But not every technological advancement provided benefits that were in excess of the costs.