Perhaps the (often unspoken) mass appeal customer problem that the AI LLMs are solving is not efficiency / productivity - but thinking itself? Lots of us don't like to think, we'd prefer a machine to do it for us?

Reminds me of that research that suggested "People would rather be electrically shocked than left alone with their thoughts"

https://www.science.org/content/article/people-would-rather-be-electrically-shocked-left-alone-their-thoughts

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