Quote: "Who said that AI be bad?"
Plenty of people and rightly so, at least when it comes to generative AI.
Anyone who values human creativity, skill, and authenticity. Anyone who doesn't want any work they've ever posted online to be scraped and fed into a machine that is meant to put them out of work. Anyone who values the earth's limited natural resources. Anyone who doesn't want the internet to be overrun with disinformation, scams and content farm generated garbage at an exponential rate. Anyone who doesn't want theirs or their children's faces and voices stolen from a single photo or audio clip for the purposes of ransom, bullying and deepfaked you-know-what. This isn't speculation -- all of this is happening right now and it's only getting worse.
Machine learning is great and useful for medical research and similar applications. But that's where it should stay, at least until heavy regulations are put in place. There are no positive use cases for generative AI in content creation that justify all of the horrifically bad ones.