Researcher Andy Masley reviewed polling data on the backlash and concluded that its main drivers are not simply distrust of Big Tech, skepticism about AI, or concerns...

...an entire movement rose up in opposition, not because people hated progress but because they didn’t want it to be rammed down their throats...

The AI industry gleefully sold its products as harmful to the interests of ordinary people. Thankfully, ordinary people decided that there would be consequences for that.