While that thoughtpiece makes me not like him as a person, your point is correct; the comment you're replying to is a low effort ad hominem, attacking the person and something they said about a different subject instead of addressing the actual remark about models.
Come on, his point is not about AI but about politics: "they" versus "you".
And he is completely, totally incompetent on this - and by the way, he's also completely incompetent on AI, and on most of tech. See his stint at twitter...
