I wasn't trying to be condescending. I was stating my experience talking to people 10-20 years ago, before AI was thought about at all by people outside of tech. It always boiled down to a dualist vs monist ontology argument. I agree there are valid reasons to dislike current generative AI tech though. I agree with a lot of this.

I should say I do think that deeper ontological thing is why people tend to think the tech will always be a novelty or will stagnate soon, etc.