I think the synopsis might be lying.~ This was absolutely intentionally resembling the current AI debate.
Also, the artist who made this seems to not quite understand what generative AI is, thinking it suddenly develops feelings. Sure, it can claim it does, or do things that seem like it. But it is still all math, and not even math like in our brains chemistry, but rather merely probabilistic and geometric math. Essentially, it is monkeys on typewriters hitting keys randomly, except the typewriter is made so it is more likely to hit keys that make a coherent work as if a human had made it. And then it accidentally tells you it loves you.
They also seem to think the ai outright copies what you do, making replicas. If that was a thing, then it would be considered plagiarism and publishing AI-made works would have copyright issues with the learnset. But that is not how it works. It is very much a transformative process (if done correctly).
Aside from that, I think it highlighted rather well how most of the modern propaganda against AI is merely vested interests protecting their vested interests. It is the same old thing we have always seen, from when dock workers striked to ban automation in unloading/loading ships, to when truck drivers protested that they were losing jobs from all the trucks becoming self-driving, to when factory workers complained that they were being replaced by robots, to when craftsmen complained that factories mass-producing stuff in a conveyor-belt process made them obsolete, to when horse people complained that trains and automobiles made them unwanted and obsolete, to when trained warriors and archers complained that ranged weaponry conscripts could learn to use in weeks was dishonorable, to and so on, etc.
That is not to say that it is a bad thing for vested interests to vest their interests. Just that one has to keep in mind that most arguments given are clearly in bad faith or reiterating such arguments they heard someone else make. But, objectively, AI is not ready to make human artists obsolete yet (same reason truck drivers still exists). And until it is, we need those vested interests to remain and flourish.
It did not highlight how ai operating worse than humans, floods everything with subpar results that will in the future end up in the learnsets of future ai, making a spiral of lowering the the quality of future things bu muddying the soup.
No idea why they threw in a random war arc in the latter half though.
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