I maintain the position that people will chose to go into the matrix

Its not AI, its humanity itself. There is no AI, because none of those tools are actually autonomous. There no AI commenters here or anywhere, it is always humans causing that slop to be posted.

Anyway, this idea goes back to long before The Matrix, try H G Wells The War of the Worlds, ably voiced by David Essex and Richard Burton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcAwrLzhnzQ

Both of those are stories you’re being told, not reality. Consider that the current seemingly apocalyptic near term future may be a mass-media induced mass delusion.