Here’s what amazes me about the reaction to LLMs: they were designed to solve NLP, stunningly did so, and then immediately everyone started asking why they can’t do math well or reason like a human being.
We had countless breathless articles about free will at the time, and though this has now decreased, the discourse is still warped by claims of 'PhD-level intelligence'.
The backlash isn't against LLMs, it's against lies.
They just can't shut up about how AI is going to either save us all or kill us all.
Whether that is due to AI, WFH->offshoring, or end of ZIRP is anybody's guess.
All I know is any tech meetups I go to are full of people looking for work and the recruiters that normally stop by have vanished.