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The internet is full of diverse opinions, and you tend to go towards communities that fit your morals, ideas, etc. On big tech social media platforms, this is done through algorithms that track your activity, while on the Fediverse, content is more curated (so still a sort of bubble, but one that you choose for yourself I guess). Additionally, negative opinions are more likely to gain traction online, whether they are valid or not. People are more likely to share polarising views online rather than those experienced by everyone.
You will also note that in the real world, there is fewer "tech-savvy" people. Most people don't know about the unethical nature of LLMs and how they are problematic to copyright. The majority of people don't have a strongly negative opinion on LLMs nor do they usually have a strong positive opinion on it. They see it as something that can make paragraphs using only a few words and "art" with a single prompt. They think it's neat, but certainly not the saviour to humanity many business execs think it is.
But I would like to highlight that, in real life, there are a lot of people who hate LLMs, text-to-image models, etc. Most artists don't like that these models are being trained on their creations without their consent or any sort of compensation. Doctors and others in the medical industry don't like that people are turning to LLMs for health advice (that is usually wrong and/or harmful), particularly when it concerns mental health. Software maintainers hate that "vibe coders" are submitting unreviewed LLM-generated code, taking up the time that could be better spent fixing bugs or developing new features. And I'm sure that there are businesspeople who are worried that the "AI bubble" will pop any moment once investors realise that they are losing money, crashing the economy and bankrupting a lot of people.
It's not that everybody online hates LLMs and, in the real world, people feel the opposite. That wouldn't really make sense. It's more that polarising opinions are amplified on the Internet. See the "AI bros" online for some strongly positive opinions, they are quite ridiculous I think, they somehow treat LLMs to a higher degree than most business execs. And on the Internet, there is a higher proportion of tech-savvy individuals who know the ethical, legal, and moral risks of LLMs.
I highlight that they are LLMs, not AI. To say that they are "AI" would mean that they have intelligence. In my opinion, since these models do not actually understand the prompt given. I believe that intelligence requires being able to understand a problem and figure out a solution. There are plenty of intelligent beings on this planet, us humans, corvids, octopi, certain species of whale, a lot of the primates, ant colonies, etc. But LLMs are not one of them.