That's a great fallacies of our times:

    - I don't like crypto, so it's bad,
    - I like AI, so it's good, even if it's destroying our world.

We're all grown up children at the end of the day. We like our toys and are in denial of its harms. Scale doesn't matter.

BTW, I believe that AI is a good thing in its ideal case, but we need to sort its energy use and data ethics issues.