"How do I rotate this PDF? I need to print it."
"Uh, you can just set it to print in landscape mode."
(Scornful stare, for using space age words) "NO! I must ROTATE the PDF!"
I'm sure I had a conversation like this with one of the acquaintances of my dad
Short summary: Elon gives Elon some Elon and congratulates Elon for being such an Elon, that big money boy he is. Money!
"The samurai charged into battle, shouting You must install Adobe Flash plugin to view this content."
No, the 1990s didn't smell of sex and candy. It smelled of a banking crisis and a box of 3.5" floppies.
I'm an artist / writer and I don't see problem with generative AI when you're at a really early concept stage. Exploring ideas, try to get over creative blocks, that sort of stuff. Maybe the AI hallucinations and fuckups can give you ideas worth exploring.
But using them as a literal basis for artwork you work further on is a fool's errand. It's easier to maybe take ideas from there, but work from scratch anyway. And I do realise that even that is controversial.
Also, could be a legal quagmire. Also not happy about the copyright appropriation situation or the environmental impact.
In Musk logic: it's not bad when he does it. It's bad when people start discussing it, because they might come to a disapproving conclusion.