People generally hate low effort AI slop.
Irrational people hate art made with AI as a tool.
"By invading the territories of art, photography has become art's most mortal enemy." - Said someone who nobody knows because it's a long and dead opinion.
Inarticulate and indiscriminate hate towards “AI” is often a lack of education on the landscape of creative technologies that exist.
Not everything is an AI slot machine trained on scraped data.
But I’m sure you know all about that, and have no interest in delineating.
So are you enumerating, or...? Why am I doing this for you?
>Inarticulate and indiscriminate hate towards “AI” is often a lack of education on the landscape of creative technologies that exist.
I doubt that. It's more often the result of interaction with the AI products themselves than a lack of articulation, discrimination, or practice with "creative technologies that exist."
No, it's OK to care about the source/process. It is not irrational. You may disagree, but it is utterly human - as rational as things get.
But there aren't people for whom it is a positive, just those for which it fails to be a negative. It creates a severe negative impression or a neutral one.
That is a terrible tradeoff!