It is probably old fashioned fear mongering. Even if it isn't the end of the world, many Jobs will be 'impacted'. Jobs probably wont be gone gone, but still change, and change is scary. It is true that the GPTs have done some things so amazing that it is waking people up to an uncertain future. VFX artists are already being laid off, Nvidia just demonstrated tech to do a full VFX film using motion capture on your phone. There are other AI initiatives to do for sequence planning, and mapping out tasks that were done for other areas. Pretty soon there wont be an industry that isn't impacted.

But, no stopping it.