Current generative AI isn't additive. It's generative. That's about half of the problem. DAWs don't revert your changes back to means, but genAI always do, being a statistical model. The roughly other half is that the output is inexplicably bad, not always noticeable to everyone but often obvious to artists and connoisseurs, so connoisseurs can't promote themselves into artists by use of AI.
The almost violent anti-AI sentiment seen among art cohort is sometimes hard to understand to subgroups of tech literates without enough training epochs in human generative image data(especially the kind prevalent on the Internet), and I would understand that without grasp of rather subjective quality issues it could indeed look like an artificially incited luddite conspiracy.
Once someone makes an AI that would be additive and outputs entertainment worthy, then the "luddites" will change, they must. Until then, it's just a technically remarkable white noise generator.
The almost violent anti-AI sentiment seen among art cohort is sometimes hard to understand to subgroups of tech literates without enough training epochs in human generative image data(especially the kind prevalent on the Internet), and I would understand that without grasp of rather subjective quality issues it could indeed look like an artificially incited luddite conspiracy.
Once someone makes an AI that would be additive and outputs entertainment worthy, then the "luddites" will change, they must. Until then, it's just a technically remarkable white noise generator.