Because the products these companies produce are extremely popular, and people benefit from them.

Well, we are talking about the CEOs, not the companies.

And these CEOs have very little to do with creating and improving said companies' products. The repeated outlandish claims kind of definitely broke this illusion.

Even if both are true (which is arguably), it's only at the current price point. When prices start to match what it costs, that will change greatly.

They are widely used but not liked and net benefits are arguable.

They’re useful right now, under the explicit pretense that their goal is to literally ruin your life. No more work, I guess you die now, bye bye.

Maybe that won’t happen, but these CEOs not only tell us it will happen, they have the gall to brag about it. Of course that’s unpopular.

“Yeah I plan to basically torture most of the world’s population until they eventually die. Except the elite few who hold the AI means of production. Wait, why are you booing?”