I definitely think AI will be profitable because companies love to use it instead of employing people, which incurs much greater costs and liabilities. Also once people are dependent on it for companionship, doing their college assignments, generating ideas etc. they will be willing to pay more than their Netflix subscription not to lose it. The energy and cooling costs will go down as the technology improves, and you can already run DeepSeek on a personal computer so I don't see it being a big issue at all.

While all the essential information about you could be written in less than 48 pages, all the details needed for AI to give you reflections on what you could have done better in the last year, advise you on what present to give your nephew, estimate which of your friends is most likely to help you with a particular errand, create a work schedule for your next two weeks or fix a bug in your current programming project will take up much more than 48 pages.

It making everything slightly or greatly worse is reason enough.

Definitely agree with that. People went on strikes across multiple industries over far less disruptive changes.