I get the sense that many creator types are only seeing AI use in the context of their own creative practice (writing, images, hobby coding). This scope limit, more than whatever bias they bring from their opinions, positive or negative, is what’s really badly distorting their views and indirectly, public discourse.

If you don’t have a day job where you are witnessing AI use in complex business, research, and engineering workflows you don’t really have a basis to form an opinion on what’s going on, positive or negative. The retail use cases provide a very narrow-band view of the spectrum. It’s like forming opinions on the agriculture sector entirely on the basis of the Whole Foods grocery shopping experience.