I think there's plenty of doom saying with both. LLMs and diffusion models are both highly disruptive technologies, and I think it's fair to speculate on what the impact of that will be.

The difference is I don't see book authors and news writers trying to sue OpenAI for "stealing" their articles and not providing attribution, or creating websites that try to divine which specific book chapters or news articles ChatGPT used to generate any particular response (as if that's at all representative of how GPT works).

Well, yeah, copilot had bunch of clueless people yell how it would make programming so much easier, but it was pretty obvious for anyone who used it that it was no where near ready do replace anyone. It was more like a good generic LSP