@remenca The field of machine learning is bigger than generative models, and sometimes other type of models and other solutions are better. You don't need to change careers, particularly with this economy, where you would likely be replaced with someone else. Just don't be attached to it. If you want to defend machine learning in general you can make a clear distinction between it and generative "AI". And even if some uses of genAI are perfectly ethical I don't think you should be losing sleep because those ethical uses are unknown to the public. It doesn't really matter, you know?