Saying there are legit uses of AI is not really an answer to the issues being raised against AI by creatives

There is a reason John Scalzi is one of my favorite authors in the world. He is outspoken about issues that are close to his heart and like most authors he is not a fan of AI. In fact he has a clause in his contracts that all artwork, translation etc on his books will be done by actual humans instead of AI. The creative crowd doesn’t like AI because the models are trained on media & text without licensing and thus without paying the original creator and the content it creates is actually quite bad, Plus the suits (management) want to fire all the creatives so that they can use the scholastic parrot to create stuff without having to pay for it. John had the perfect comment explaining why the creatives dislike the people who pop up in their feeds when they complain about AI saying that there are legit uses for it: John Scalzi on AI I don’t know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about “AI” to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like…