Anti-AI sentiment is quite extreme. You can easily get death threats if you're associating yourself with AI publicly. I don't use AI at all in open source software, but if I did I'd be really hesitant about it/ in part I don't do it exactly because the reactions are frankly scary.

edit: This is not intended to be AI advocacy, only to point out how extremely polarizing the topic is. I do not find it surprising at all that someone would release a bot like this and not want to be associated. Indeed, that seems to be the case, by all accounts