Because discourse around AI has devolved into eschatological thinking. The stakes are potentially high where the ceiling might be superintelligence and the floor total economic collapse, humans will just default to apocalyptic thinking. All discussion ceases to be technical and instead becomes religious.

Once people have convinced themselves that the stakes are existential, any nuance or moderate thinking feels like complicity.

So now because of that, a perfectly reasonable policy about copyright gets reframed as a battle for the future of humanity becausae we are no longer discussing tech, we are discussing what amounts to opposing religious beliefs.