There are definitely things to say against AI, but the anti-AI crowd can sometimes be incredibly short sighted and assholishly militant.

I'd both-sides this except that one side has to constantly fix the other side's mass-produced garbage-on-demand while their management continues to shrink the resources and time available to do both that and their own job.

Sure, you can responsibly use AI, and creating an environment for that would generally be a good thing. That ignores the reality of the world we live in though, and it's easy to understand why people are exhausted over the artificial hype and want their spaces to remain untainted by it.