Noticed some AI evangelists try with the same kind of fake centrism, that was pretty popular during the Gamergate era. In this case, they try to set up people spamming genAI slop against “fanatical anti-AI people”. But just as many loves to pretend moderates are “far-left”, as their past-Gamergate selves pretended Anita Sarkeesian demanded state censorship of sexist videogames, as they are now pretending Hasan Piker is the most radical leftist living today (there are much worse even within the content creator sphere, such as Badempanda) to illustrate the “horseshoe theory”, the table is tilted in favor of AI adoption.
People losing jobs to AI is also an ethical concern, not just the sourcing of the data for training AI or the dependency on 3rd parties (i.e. non-local).
One one side, that means that for some kinds of Machine Learning were the other ethical concerns do not apply, there are still ethical concerns against their use.
On the other side, if that one too was addressed, then the whole “artists are loosing their jobs” concern might become a non-issue (practicing Art as a job is generally a “have to” situation, not a “chose to”) at which point some further kinds of ML would be acceptable.
A blanket “X is bad, period!” rejection of all Machine Learning is simplistic and reductionist.