I don't even disagree that these tools aren't useful - I use them myself and agree that they allow for creating things for cheap that used to cost a lot.

The reason everyone is irritated at the tech companies is not so much because they made it cheaper to do these things, but because they seem to have such a smarmy, slimy attitude about the whole thing - these comments by the Microsoft CEO of AI as a prime example. They could have just trained their models on old public domain content, Wikipedia, or a million other things, but instead they want to justify raiding content that was shared for free under different expectations. This is only going to result in a locked-down, paywalled web that is pretty much the opposite of 90s net values.