On the one hand, you have low effort jackasses that take “the machine” and just use it to churn out trash.
On the other hand, you have zealots insisting that anything that is made by a person is made of 100% divine treasure that they did not give a shit about 2 years ago.
On the other hand, you have boardrooms full of assholes that preyed on artists to exploit their humble backgrounds and use them as faces to push trends for money, with 0 interest in any expression what so ever. They ruined the entire concept of art long before AI came along.
In the middle, you have a machine that answers the previously philosophical question : what would come out if you combined every artwork a human being made and let people use it to create their dreams?
On the other hand you have assholes using said artwork machine as an excuse to fire everyone, ruin the environment even faster, and overthrow political systems.
Like fuck all of this.
EDIT : Oh, and how could I forget the pre-AI prompt artists, “installation artists” whose job it is to know museum curators and rich people and write instructions about how to assemble boxes or tape bananas to walls. Good job assholes.
Your list combined with OP’s grievances is still non-exhaustive. Add environmental and societal impact. Nature and people suffer physically from it. People can’t get jobs. People who have created IP get pushed out by government-supported IP theft.
I’m not willing to entertain this at all. It’s not a psy-op for me, just a gigantic grift & hype of mostly one nation and its corpos.
Sure, the likes of Thiel and Altman would like you to think it’s a more complex thing, even to the point of admitting that it’s controversial. But it’s still just a grift, hype and bubble.