FYI: contrarians include a lot of people with legitimate concerns around copyright, AI slop, media manipulation, and further centralization of economic power and those that own the AI machines. Be careful not to over generalize.
I agree, the language for contrarians is a bit strong. These aren't all gatekeepers. Some have strong valid concerns about the quality of work that AI can produce unchecked. Seems unfair to group all critics in the "haters" box. We have decades of evidence on the harm AI can do.
Btw if you haven't already, go follow Andrej Karpathy on YouTube.
It's incredibly rare to see an elite AI scientist teach in such a simple manner. He's like the Richard Feynman of machine learning.