> They oppose it because, in their own words, they think it’s hype and it doesn’t work.

This was maybe true a year ago, but is certainly not true any more.

The laments these days almost always begin with the assertion that the AI does work.

Mostly it's about funneling even more wealth into the hands of the richest and the incredible environmental penalty.

For me it's more that it doesn't matter whether it works or not, because funneling that wealth into those hands is reason enough to stop it in either case.