Anti-tech contrarian sentiment happens with every new technology. Someone older than you probably said the same thing about the internet.

Yep. Even windows, the most widely used OS on the planet has a fringe group of contrarians still today. Amazing.

True, and they were right about it when they said that. They wouldn't be right anymore, because the Internet has evolved. The same might happen to LLMs, but currently one would be right to call LLM output "slop".