

That is not “allowing us to be the sole host of the thing that is destroying our economy and trust in all media from inside out”. That is keeping parity with it. China is also having major issues with fabricated media from AI. The Chinese government has also latched on to AI, as many others, to manipulate media, and many other police state things. Their economy is heavily, heavily, invested in the success of llms. When this bubble bursts, it will be bad for every major economy on earth, as they are all disproportionately invested in this.

If we converted the land used for growing corn, specifically to be made into ethanol fuel, to house solar panels that alone would create more energy than the US is currently using. Then you can plant cash crops that need more shade, but have higher profit margins, in the same fields as the solar panels and still maintain the land’s agricultural importance