I've seen three major pushers of this narrative. Well 3.5.

1) CEOs of AI and AI adjacent companies, like the Anthropic CEO quoted in the article, Sam Altman(till recently atleast), Perplexity CEO, Microsoft CEO etc. It brings them new VC money, investment, and customers who "don't want to miss out on this big trend".

1.5) Media heavily pushing the above CEOs quotes, probably just for clicks and engagement, brings them money. The angle pushed is that these CEOs would know the next trend, because they're developing better models in secret right now.

2) BlueSky appears to really hate on anything AI to the point of personal attacks, putting AI related tweeters on blocklists and bans etc. Maybe coz artists are overrepresented and AI is having a real or perceived effect on artists?

3) Reddit, especially the antiwork side

It looks like a neo-Luddite movement to me, but much like the original Luddites, it’s only and anti new technology movement because that’s been conflated with their real pain which is that the benefits of productivity have been sucked up by one group of people while they have to deal with all the inequities.