Nah, you might just be falling for the same ol' loudest voices problem. Only absolute morons that care about technology while knowing absolutely nothing about it enjoy "AI". It is a very small percentage of people that unfortunately happens to include a ton of C-suit morons: Very loud people.

A lot of the general glazing are chatbots spamming positive engagement on what ever angle the person paying them to astroturf wants. If you think OpenAI's bot "going rogue" and attacking a competitor was an accident, then you're being a fool. Someone wanted it to happen and let it. They (the companies trying to make money, not the "AI" itself) are already showing malicious intent, and astroturfing is a lot easier than cyber attacks.

Though worth noting, there are sects of tech savvy people that like machine learning, and some that even like the generative slop machines, but I differentiate them by what they want from the tool. If they're a scientist looking to digest some massive data sets? Nice. If they're some dumbass "indie dev" trying to lazily slop a tech demo out in a language they barely understand with libraries they'd never read, then they can go pound sand.