There would be nothing bad with LLMs provided that:

They weren’t based on colossal scale appropriation of people’s copyrighted work - are there any like that? The companies are actually laundering their IP addresses so that they can’t be blocked (see recent article on the LKML for an example). I don’t call that “fair use”.

They weren’t being powered by building new fossil-fuel generators in the middle of heatwaves that make it very clear that the climate emergency is here and now (the idea that LLMs are going to solve that problem for us is laughable).

I could go on. Nothing bad, so long as we ignore all the bad parts.

* Millions of people who wouldn’t or couldn’t have bought Photoshop still edited photos. Adobe lost nothing.