>>213894115 (OP)
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The West has for a long time had a very strong authenticity culture with regards to art and art creation.
Where art is seen as the product of an artist and an authentic representation of who they are as a person. And conversely, even when you go Death of the Author mode, art still relies on being the product of a human for the consumer to turn it into a mirror of themselves. You can't say that a mountain is a dialog about "late stage capitalism", but you can say that The Little Mermaid is, even if that is asinine. Because inherently, you require a plausible connection to a human to justify that meaning being there.
AI is seen as destroying that, separating the creation process from the creator. So that you can have works with, for all intents and purposes, no creator.
This culture is extremely foundational to modern Western society. And violating it is stress testing many norms and perceptions of the world for a lot of people.
As well, Western society has for a long time had a lot of anxiety over labor security and one's ability to be confident they'll have access to a job in the next few years.
Decades of automation, outsourcing, or importation of workers in many companies has left the average Westerner with a fairly large latent anxiety about the future of their ability to work for a living at a decent job. AI is another example of the above and is potentially the worst of them.
Asian societies have been the recipients of outsourced factories or labor otherwise, gaining when the West loses. And most Asian nations have protectionist governments that work to keep industry and production within their borders. So that fear really doesn't exist in the same way. AI doesn't have the same anxieties to prey on.