Luddites didn't protest against automation, but rather against inhumane working conditions in factories and smashing their machines just happened to be efficien

Luddites didn't protest against automation, but rather against inhumane working conditions in factories and smashing their machines just happened to be efficient at destroying profit. So in a way, you could say luddites acknowledge technology for what it is, it's just techbros who fail to comprehend basic facts about machine learning and pushing text compression models as a replacement for everything they (don't) know anything about.