Considering one crosspost for this is the sneer-club hypocrites at awful.systems, there's also the interplay of bad-faith criticism and bad-faith excuses, for their own sake. Individual randos have picked an allegiance and will now engage in kneejerk loyalist ad-hoc justification, because they think that's how things work. Going from arguments to conclusions would be ridiculous, to them. Their claims are not intended to be evaluated.

Myriad douchebags have jumped from crypto to AI as the next buzzword cult that might make them hideously rich. People rightly condemning them also tend to jab at whatever bullshit they're pushing, now. Some of that's going to be legitimate perspective on an over-hyped autocomplete, powered by copying every book in the library, using racks of video cards running full-tilt 24/7. Some of that's going to be inane performative mockery of creative tools that border on magical and should scale down to translate speech right in your earbuds. All I can guarantee for you is that the aforementioned douchebags will not know the difference. Neither will their loudest critics. They'll both say 'you just don't understand!' because they're just shuffling cards and this deck is not deep.