It always is. If you want to get really freaky with it, just look at how NFTs became demonized at the same time as when Gamestop's pivot to NFT third-party provider was leaked by WSJ. Just the other month people were bashing the author of Terminal Shock and hard sci-fi cyberpunk pioneer Neal Stephenson in his AMA for having a NFT project/tech demo by arguing with someone that knows 1000x more than they do, saying it's just a CO2 emitter and only scam artists use it and were disappointed to see he'd try to do this to his followers. Of course, the tech has evolved and those claims weren't true in his case, but it was literally all in one ear out the other for these people even after he'd defend himself with the actual facts about his green implementation and how it works. They bought an overly general narrative and they're sticking to it!

Interesting that now, with a technology that produces an order of magnitude more pollution (you can actually list models on Hugging Face by the metric tonnes of CO2 equivalent released during training) and producing an epidemic of cheaters in high schools, universities, and the work force, it's all radio silence. God only knows how much scamming and propaganda (which is just scamming but "too big to fail") is waiting in the wings.

I don't think the average person even knows what they would do with such a powerful LLM beyond having entertaining convos with it or having it write articles for them. Of course they see other people doing great things with it and not really any of the other ways it's being misused by degens right now, which goes back to an advantage in corporate propaganda.