The maths technology behind AI generated stuff is indeed impressive and beautiful. But people are mostly against the way it's being used in the real world.
Big companies like Microsoft are using it to make profit off of the back of creative types. They're going to force non-AI art out of the market to make quick short term profit at the cost of the entire creative industry.
It may be "progress", but it's progress in the same way that social media platforms restricting their consumers to increase roi is progress.