GMO's are a completely different thing though. A crop which who's gene's were hand picked by a human to be more drought resistant instead of naturally are completely different conversation and different morality. Vaccines make people uneasy, just like GMO's, but that doesn't mean that unease particularly equivalent to AI or the same moral issues.

AI already is drowning out human made content on websites for creatives. Aided in no small part with their curator's malicious insistence to not label their posts as AI generated. It's only going to get worse as AI art becomes better.