"There hasn't been a tangible nett good for society that has come from it and I doubt there would be"

People being more productive with writing code, making music or writing documents fpr whatever is not a improvement for them and therefore for society?

Or do you claim that is all imaginary?

Or negated by the energy cost?

I claim that the new code, music or documents have not added anything significant/noteworthy/impactful to society except for the self-perpetuating lie that it would, all the while regurgitating, at high speeds, what was stolen.

And all at significant opportunity cost (in terms of computing and investment)

If it was as life altering as they claim where's that novel work of art (in your examples..of code, music or literature) that truly could not have been produced without GenAI and fundamentally changed the art form ?

Surely, with all that ^increased productivity^ we'd have seen the impact equivalent of linux, apache, nginx, git, redis, sqlite, ... Etc being released every couple of weeks instead of yet another VSCode clone./s