There's no evidence that this fearmongering over safety is actually correct. The worst thing you can do is pummel an emerging technology into the grave because of misplaced fear.
Spend any amount of time on mainstream social media and you'll see AI-generated media being shared credulously. It's not a hypothetical risk, it's already happening.
Even if you're not convinced that it's dangerous, at the very least it's incredibly annoying.
If someone dumped a trailer full of trash in your garden, you're not going to say "oh well, market forces compelled them to do that".