Don’t get me wrong, there are problems with it, both in the process that modern AI uses as well as the sources that it draws from, however, as of right now ai is just a tool like auto-tune or photoshop.
Even though it will change the media formats that it is attached to, it will not supplant them within the next 5 to 10 years, it will simply transform them.
The problem is not the tech, as usual, it’s the people, who have been led to believe it’s AGI, who equate forming syntactically correct sentence with intelligence, and that that is enough to perform most white collar tasks.