The state of the art of generative AI is built on strip mining the commons to repackage it as a product that claims to save or destroy creativity as part of a viable career path, depending on whether its proprietors are talking to artists or investors.
The likes of OpenAI are headed toward a legal, ethical, and economic reckoning. Booms always lead to busts, and this bust will leave a lot of cheap compute for the many people thinking about pro-social and ethical uses for machine learning but who can't get much attention amid all the hype.
While I won't categorically reject any technology, I do think anyone who wants to use machine learning today, especially transformers and diffusion models, has to be crystal clear on the legal status of their use and the social reality of where they want to use it. If everyone around you is violently against it, you might be better off not using it unless you're willing to cull your circles a bit.
Any application of such technologies in anything I make will be ethical and legal, and support the process like any other tool rather than replace it.
This was written on but not by a machine.