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The Luddite comparison is rather unfair. AI will have its applications, but it's largely turning into the next tech bro buzzword being inappropriately shoehorned into everything, just like companies were trying to do with crypto and block chain everything a couple of years back. Now, everywhere you turn is cramming it in by default, whether it's actually helpful or not. Outlook suddenly started irritating attempts at "assisting" my email writing, when I search for stuff, I get previews with generic AI summaries rather than letting me see a snippet of the actual content, and on and on. AI art will be matter of taste, I suppose, but AI evangelists have taken a novelty and worn out its welcome faster than redditors beating the dead horse of a joke into the ground.

If companies weren't constantly overselling its current capabilities and putting it in things it has no business being in, you would probably have a much less negative reaction to it. I'll wait another few years to see what it actually shakes out to be useful for, but in the meantime, I don't really want to hear about the latest and greatest AI-enabled toaster that uses cloud technology to predict when you want toast and to burn images based on voice prompts into your toast, while using a loaf-based block chain to identify which of your roommates should have used the heel of the loaf but skipped it.