That reminds me of another more obvious way these folks are projecting.
They place so much value on their own ability to munge words together and spew internally consistent language constructs. The existence of a technology -- a machine -- that can do this and do it better than them is a threat to them. The AIs small enough to run locally on my own GPU are better at bullshitting than these people.
It's almost like sophistry isn't particularly interesting or special.
