A combine harvester devours fossil fuels and requires massive steel refineries to build, and offers no real advantage other than letting one person steal all the farmland without agriculture collapsing, and it produces much, much more decent results than any AI datacenter. If you think they care whether it's effective, and you think that it's going to improve as they prophecize while the technology wallows in the terrible idea it has always been, you might have another thing coming.
The slop is the point. They're trying to ruin everything faster than we can keep up, so we'll be powerless to hold them accountable for their actual crimes against humanity. Not the AI, the rich fucks who are ordering us to build pointless machines because useful idiots like you keep thinking that maybe it isn't all a bunch of BS.
So no, I don't even have to put humanity on a pedestal and say we're more special better because God Made Us In His Image or some bullshit. AI just sucks. It doesn't have to produce decent results, since you people will act like it does just because some rich fuck said so.
A hundred people picking corn in a field are fine. They don't need "efficiency" that just hides the costs by fucking over innocents, and pretends it's some kind of great advancement.