It’s generative and LLM AI that is the issue.

It makes garbage facsimiles of human work and the only thing CEOs can see is spending less money so they can horde more of it. It also puts pressure on resource usage, like water and electricity. Either by using it for cooling the massive data centers or by simply the power draw needed to compute whatever prompt.

The other main issue is that it is theft plain and simple. Artists, actors, voice actors, musicians, creators, etc are at risk of having their jobs stolen by a greedy company that only wants to pay for a thing once or not at all. You can get hired once to read or be photographed/videoed and then that data can be used to train a digital replacement without your consent. That was one of the driving forces behind the last big actor’s union protests.

For me, it’s also the lack of critical thinking skills using things like ChatGPT fosters. The thought that one doesn’t have to put any effort into writing an email, an essay, or even researching something when you can simply type in a prompt and it spits out mainly incorrect information. Even simple information. I had an AI summary tell me that 440Hz was a higher pitch than 446Hz. I wasn’t even searching for that information. So, it wasted energy and my time giving demonstrably wrong data I had no need for.