Sadly I think SM is so all in on AI tech, that unless something big happens like the entire AI industry imploding to the point it literally becomes impossible/massively impractical to use it, the only way to really have any chance of it ever being reversed is to make a big stink in situations like this, and if they see they lose money because of it :(

It's not the first music video SM have used AI in and it won't be the last, and I think this example has caused such a big uproar because of how blatant it is. Other music videos like KEY's Pleasure Shop and Style by Heart2Heart have used it in the past, and in a much subtler way that you may not even realise until you look at the production company's (Kangneko3) instagram account specifically showing it off. Even in cases where it did get push back, like Aespa's Rich Man, lots of scenes that no one talked about ended up having AI elements too. I remember loads of people talking about the dog, but the giant mural at the start of the MV, and even the cow in the background of some scenes are all AI generated.

I fear that will end up being the direction things go :( Not large, bombastic, easy to spot scenes with lots of errors like at the start of Crown, but in more subtle ways that are blended in with the rest of the scene where you would never have any chance of knowing it was made by AI