people are mad because job & portfolio sites are being flooded with aishit which is making them unusable for both artists and clients .
people are mad because their copyright is being scraped and resold for profit by third parties without their consent.
whether ai is the future is an utterly meaningless distraction until these concerns are addressed. as an aside, ai evangelists telling working professionals that they 'simply don't get' their field of expertise has been an incredibly poor tact for generating goodwill towards this technology or the operations attempting to extract massive profit from it's implementation.