I have been observing this behaviour for over two whole entire decades...
I am not the only one who has noticed, but, now it's strongest around AI-Consciousness.
Although the following two web-sites don't get specifically into AI-Consciousness...

https://skepticalaboutskeptics.org
https://mysterylores.com/news/materialists-in-consciousness-discussions/

...they provide a base-line of observations on the materialist pseudo-skeptic behaviours.