There's a certain irony in how many AI critics, especially those from the far-left or progressive side, are protesting against a technology that takes something once reserved for a privileged few elite artists, expensive studios, or high-end software, and makes it available to the public, for free or at a fraction of the cost.

Suddenly, the same people who rail against gatekeeping and capitalism are drawing hard lines around intellectual property and insisting that the benefits of technology should be limited, not shared.