AI-hate correlates with misanthropy

For as much emphasis as AI-haters put on ostensibly bringing the human element back to art and literature, I have a growing sense that there is a lot of overlap between people who hate AI and people who hate humans in general.

When confronted with the observation that the vast majority of people are really enjoying (and even delighting in) the media that people are outputting using generative AI, AI-haters tend to retreat into some flavor of “Well, the ‘masses’ are just stupid,” or “most people have bad taste,” or “the ‘ignorant throngs’ just don’t appreciate true art the way I do.” It’s not always stated so explicitly, but the vibe is pretty clear.

Am I way off base here, or are other people in the AI industry seeing similar things?