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At a minimum, It has stealing, privacy, wage theft, power comsumption, and hardware scarcity issues.
Taking a couple of those away would help. A large part is the fear that it's taking away our livelihoods, and it's not even really good at it. It's also polluting and running on enough pirated data that we'd be sent to prison forever if we, as individuals tried it.
It shines at assisting professionals in specific fields, reading things like body scans, blood tests, and patient histories, and finding correlations. It's good at helping DevOps/IT people who have to rarely maintain a bunch of oddball systems. It's decent at finding inconsistencies in code documentation and documenting code that isn't documented.
It's bad at art compared to an artist It's good at art compared to an average electrician.
It's good at taking work from artists, making side money on Fiverr. It's great at marketing to CEO's.
There's a lot more there than social issues.