They were there, complaining. You just don't remember them because it's easier for the meaning of a word to shift, or at least take on additional contextual meaning, than it is to get people to use a new word once it's reached critical mass. Those people lost the language fight, but were arguably still vindicated, to the extent they were railing against misguided beliefs that equivocated the capacity of the new machines with their human (or more human-involved) predecessor technologies. Who you also don't remember are the people who made extravagant claims and prognostications based on the equivocation.