What are you even talking about?
There are more articles in the HN feed on AI than any other topic, by far.
A certain amount of the push back is just because of how much it displaces all other subjects.
Another amount is just trying to overcome explicit fan-boi-ism. A year and a half ago, I was a total skeptic. The tech has evolved considerably since then. Now I find it has very strong results in some applications. But there are still certain demographics who want to believe its great at everything, which is just not true.