Had the big ones not stolen the training data, were they not being used to leverage corporate goals over humans, they could be a very useful thing
AI still has the problems of spam(propaganda being the most dangerous variant of it), disinformation and impersonating real artists. These could be fixed if every AI image/video had a watermark, but i dont think that could be enforced well enough to completely eliminate these issues
There are many kinds of socialism, democratic socialism being one of them