It's hard to tell a difference between these people and Trump supporters sometimes.

To me it feels a lot like when I was arguing against antivaxxers.

The same pattern of linking and explaining research but having it dismissed because it doesn't line up with their gut feelings and whatever they read when "doing their own research" guided by that very confirmation bias.

The field is moving faster than any I've seen before, and even people working in it seem to be out of touch with the research side of things over the past year since GPT-4 was released.

A lot of outstanding assumptions have been proven wrong.

It's a bit like the early 19th century in physics, where everyone assumed things that turned out wrong over a very short period where it all turned upside down.