Then the ideologues and political commissars showed up, giving zero shit about tech or logical reasoning, this pulled the discourse down to the lowest common denominator and the rest is history.

Why should I take the moral high ground and listen to an argument I dislike if I'm not offered the same courtesy.

Looking things up and asking questions was always something for a minority of the population so the language model usage being relatively low isn't a surprise.

Problem arises if the non-AI segment is leveraged to create regulations that impact the AI using segment negatively.