Don’t get me wrong, there are problems with it, both in the process that modern AI uses as well as the sources that it draws from, however, as of right now ai is just a tool like auto-tune or photoshop.
Even though it will change the media formats that it is attached to, it will not supplant them within the next 5 to 10 years, it will simply transform them.
There are ethical problems with how many of the models have been created and some of what they’re being used for
But I generally agree, it’s pretty much the same thing we see with every technological innovation—something big changes and a load of things get disrupted, a group of people then get angry about said innovation, eventually those people dwindle and the innovation gets absorbed into the general public’s idea of what modern life consists of.
I can’t think of any big innovation over the past few decades that hasn’t really followed a similar trajectory