I recently published an article about the Luddites. If you look at their actual demands, they were not anti-tech. They were labor activists. Life got much, much worse for most people in the industrial revolution until the laws they advocated were finally implemented.
https://www.disruptingjapan.com/the-real-luddites-would-have...
There’s no way they would have been pro-AI. It would take a very skilled VC to warp the world enough to make that sound true.
The Luddites were part of a larger labor movement that spanned multiple industries.
That is still a lot closer to collective bargaining than “save the children”.
What you’re saying is plausible enough to be easy to get an LLM to hallucinate, is the larger concern here. If this opinion does come from one, try asking it to verify using external sources. The Luddites would have been violently opposed to AI slop, if they had an opinion on it.