I am certain Anti AI mobs are a psyop crafted by elite celebrities and institutions
Let’s say there is a very convenient tool that allows the normal person to access content creation, not just people who spending hours learning or enough money to be a college student and take classes. Everyone celebrates and enjoys it.
But then the people who gained wealth and influence by climbing through the ladder of the past feel threatened by it. If normies like you and i, busy parents, or anyone who is not inherently tuned to the arts dares to get an idea, wealthy entertainers will naturally feel threatened by new potential and potential rivals.
So they come up with a grand scheme. They pull strings to increase the harshness and cutthroat nature of the entertainment industry by labeling projects used with AI as a tool as “inferior”, “impure” and lacks the suffering and soul that projects of the past were done by.
This puts creators in a dilemma. Either abandon AI and increase your personal and employees stress to avoid the mob, or use the beneficial tool and risk getting doxxed, harassed, bullied, and intimidated by a mob crafted by people who are afraid of change and new technology.
From the absolutely nonsensical claims of “AI stealing from artists”(something that cannot be proved with evidence and what I personally view as one of the most baffling conspiracy theories in the history of mankind) and valid concerns I can can understand, the environmental effect, but even that is merely a side effect of a new technology emerging, as everything uses energy and is a net negative for the environment in general, I believe these statements are used as populist and hyperbolic tools to energize a mob hungry for drama and internet points.
I don’t hate the artists and celebrities who manage to create content through their ways without AI, but I believe their pride of their talent and ability naturally causes them to disdain the people who DO NOT have the talent or resources to create content outside of AI generation, and thus views folks who wish to access art, but struggle to do so without AI with an inferior gaze.
This is why I believe that the anti AI mob is a calculated tool to suppress and instill fear to the hearts of untalented, broke, and those without access to the ladder that successful artists and celebrities had.