I think, it's an mixture:
- Clickbait
- Some ethicans want to do an important role
- Hollywood movies and so on have teached us so. What could be a better source of informations to build owns worldview on it?
- Some writers hope to creat a social enviroment in which the discussion to ban the new technology starts in order to keep the jobs in their industry.
- Some political figures want to outlaw AI and found peoples and groups which are against it.
Maybe, the last point is not true at all. And the named writers, of cource, arn't full aware of their agency. Its, as often, more on a emotional ground.
I wonder how long this ruling will hold if the EU commision comes around with their own chat control. Before somebody write it: I know that the EU and the Human Rights Court are different institution and doesn't have much to do with each another.
The Russian state has already left the European agreement, which was the frame in which the court works.
At least, it should be interesting to check the judgment out. Some aspects are really interesting. As it seems, the european court may development a ruling like Bernstein v. United States. That could be interesting since the european continent lackes such a regulation as far as I know.