[CinderBH]

The issue with generative AI is that it's nowhere near as revolutionary or powerful as it's made out to be (we are nowhere near sentient AIs and likely won't be for a very long time, barring dramatic revolutions in the fields of technology, computation and energy), not to mention it fills media spaces with slop, dramatically worsens climate change and is almost entirely built on media theft. And despite that Altman and other businessmen are torching billions to keep it going, because they're desperate for another tech revolution and yearn to be at the helm of it. Because they spent years alienating themselves from normal people and are now incapable of understanding what's good and useful to them, and every priority and motivation they had has been gradually replaced by the purpose of growth at the cost of everything else.
It is, for all intents and purposes, a suicidal cult that burns comical amounts of money and resources in a desperate bid to conjure "the future", with no understanding or vision of what "the future" is. And sooner or later, something's got to give.

(And let's not even discuss how these days it's primarily used by socmed fascists to generate half-baked data sources and hateful caricatures on the go, or that embarrassing moment in time Hayao Miyazaki's art style became a Snapchat filter for crimes against humanity.)