Watching the anti-AI crowd get played and manipulated over the past year or so has been really sad. It reminds me a lot of the early days of the anti-GMO movement when legitimate criticisms and efforts at regulation were supplanted by fear mongering and the whole thing got transformed into more of cult or a kind of subcultural identity. You can see the same pattern playing out where they increasingly are sprouting disproven nonsense, actual substantive criticism is left behind for whatever sounds scariest and/or makes them feel righteous. They are on the path to discredit themselves and lose the fight for AI regulations just as badly as the anti-GMO movement lost.