If decompiling proprietary software becomes easy and cheap then these companies will just not allow you to download the binaries any more, furthering the push of cloud computing and gaming. “You will own nothing and you will be happy”
As for the medical applications, clearly OP is talking about AI colloquially, and thus referring mostly to LLMs and generative AI, which has not had much influence on the medical fields unlike other AI technologies like Alphafold. Equating the two is being ignorant (willfully or not idk)
Is entertainment and archaeology worth the cost of the environmental damage, mass plagiarism, and the funding of companies who are involved mass surveillance, pointless wars and causing financial / economic collapse?
The technology is cool for some specific tasks, and if it were brought about in a sustainable, ethical, and cautious way it would’ve been great. But ignoring all of its downsides and claiming people who don’t support this are “out of touch” “hipsters” is stupid
A key difference here is that while nuclear power plants don’t use nuclear bombs (just similar underlying physical properties and phenomenon), these exact same AI models are being used to do both terrible and (slightly) good things, and being distributed to the general public without a care for how they will be used