There are a million things AI can do that wouldn't fall into this category (repetitive, time-consuming work) that technically wouldn't make the product "AI free."
It's about as smart as hearing a phone was used to plan a bank heist, therefore we need "phone free" communication.
But even for those scenario where "AI" helps, I still believe there exists other alternatives that doesn't consume unreasonable amount of energy and are not megacorp controlled blackbox. Usually it's just better tooling, and/or a change in the process.
The reason why "AI" is simply bad is way beyond malicious abuse of these stochastic models, thus the analogy of banning phone doesn't actually work.
On the creative side, I feel like punk act like this, fighting back against all these throat-shoving and gaslighting, is pretty artistic.
Joining a moral panic mob isn't punk; it's just irrationality. The "AI is evil" crowd is just as idiotic as the "AI will do everything perfectly" crowd. They're married to ideology and are more than willing to bury themselves alive for it.
There are plenty of good reasons to not want to use gen AI (and many stupid ones as well). If someone wants to market their product that way, who cares
Well yeah, but in very many cases it has more to do with virtual signalling.
"AI" assets all look the same.